ARTH-313 Women in Art Term Paper

ARTH-313 Women in Art Term Paper

Women in Art / ARTH-313-01, Fall 2020 / Dr. Galliera

Grading Rubric for Term Paper
TOTAL: 100 POINTS
(Reminder that this project represents 30% of your overall course grade for the semester.)

Breakdown of the 100 points total
PAPER GRADING: 82 POINTS (See grading rubric below)
OTHER PARTS: 18 POINTS short presentation of your topic (3points) and work-in-progress

thesis statement, title & annotated bibliography (15points)

I will grade your written paper based on how closely you have LOOKED at the object and translated your observations into written form, AND how closely you have engaged with scholarly sources in order to both synthesize the respective author’s argument and support your own thesis.

ARTH-313 Women in Art Term Paper

Important notes:

• –  Plagiarism will result in an immediate grade of 0. I will check your essay via Turnitin.com, which

  will detect if you have not cited sources in your essay, or if you have copied anything directly

  from any other text or source. Please remember to cite correctly.

• –  Carefully read the paper assignment for full details of the paper format and content.

  Please seek assistance from writing tutors at CAS during the course of writing your essay.

  Final Written Paper Grading Rubric:

  Title “page”: /10

  [This information should be on a “front sheet” page, single-spaced. This page does NOT count towards your 7 pages. Double space once between this info and the text information below.]

  Your name
  Title of your paper
  Date you turned in your paper
  The following information on the work of art you are writing your paper on:
  Artist’s name, Tile of the work (in italics), Date of the work (when it was created) and Medium. Image of your work at the end of the paper, NOT inserted within the text of paper

  ARTH-313 Women in Art Term Paper

• Following of instructions: /3

  Is this essay based both on observations the student made while closely looking at the object and adequate research (e.g. locating scholarly sources)? Does the student have a minimum of four scholarly sources (out of which only one is a biography)?
  Does the essay follow the instructions set out in the “Information on the paper assignment” handout posted on blackboard?

  Is it the correct length? (if not, 0 points in this section)

  Correct grammar and spelling________________________________________/14

  (Correct spelling, punctuation & grammar used throughout. proper noun/verb agreement, correct use of writing voice, clarity of writing, etc. Correct punctuation used when describing works of art (either italics, quotation marks or underlining used for title of works of art, capital letters used for names of artists, brackets used for dates when appropriate. E.g. “Duccio’s Maesta was painted in 1308”. Or “Duccio’s Maesta (1308) was painted for the altarpiece of Siena cathedral.”)

  Acknowledgement of sources / correct format for bibliography and endnotes:__________________/10

Go here for a Citation Quick Guide: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html Use this guide to format your endnotes and bibliography. You will lose points if you do not format your sources accordingly. Do not use MLA style and no in text citations

ARTH-313 Women in Art Term Paper

Any evidence of plagiarism = automatic fail

Introduction: _/10

Is there a clear opening sentence that begins the essay well?
Is the thesis statement in the introduction and is it clear?
Do I understand what the essay will talk about from reading the intro?

Main Body of Essay – Quality of artwork observation & formal and contextual analysis ______/25

Does the essay “flow” well – do the ideas expressed by the writer make sense sequentially? Are the ideas expressed in the essay well-developed? (e.g. does the essay read like a series of continually-deepening and connected ideas or is it just a list of statements of fact?)
Does the essay clearly connect with the formal elements of the work? (e.g. materials used, line, tone, color, composition, medium, modeling – where appropriate).

Does the essay clearly identify the narrative of the work (painting, sculpture, performance, installation) and/or the function within the artist’s larger body of work?
Does the student support his/her argument or thesis with adequate scholarly sources?
Has the student attempted to consider elements of the social, economic, environmental, and political context in which the work was created?

ARTH-313 Women in Art Term Paper

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Conclusion: _/10

Does the writer manage to summarize and conclude his/her essay well? Is there a “final sentence” within a concluding paragraph that completes the essay satisfactorily, rather than leaving the essay mid-thought?

Written Paper Total: ______/82 Short presentation of topics_______________________________________________________________________________/3 Work-in-progress recorded presentation with Thesis/Title of paper/ Image Accompanied by an Annotated Bibliography as word document __________________________________________________________/15 OVERALL Total: _____ _______________/100