Criteria for Grading the Research Papers
The rearch paper must be a balanced discussion of different aspects of the structural issue. The 12% (10% for graduate students) for the talk for will be graded based on the following criteria.
| Item |
% |
| Paper follows the format provided in the Research Paper Format document | 20 |
| Paper is divided into sections that make the arguments and interpretations easy and clear | 20 |
| Paper has enough evidence, explanation, previous work, to justify its analyses and conclusions | 30 |
| Paper uses properly captioned graphs, models, maps, tables, etc., with relevant references | 10 |
| Paper is reasonably free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors | 10 |
| Paper has an alphabetical list of proper references, that are appropriately referred to in the text | 10 |
| Total |
100 |
