ENGLISH
Marking Policy
Within the English Department we aim to:
1. Identify and acknowledge the successful completion of a task
2. Recognise progress and achievement
3. Draw attention to errors and misunderstandings
4. Record effort or lack of effort and /or focus
5. Measure levels of achievement
6. Make positive and specific suggestions for improvement
With pieces of written work comments and corrections will often concern the following:
* appropriateness and range of vocabulary
* accuracy of spelling
* sentence construction – variety, fluency, punctuation
* degree of creativity
* coherence of organisation – sequence of ideas, paragraphing
