Used Opus 40: A Resource for Grading Academic Writing (older edition)

Description

This 191-page book, with its CD of all Michael Clay Thompson's research paper comments, supplements his three-volume Advanced Academic Writing series and also offers a unique stand-alone resource for grading student academic papers. It is a sine qua non for grading academic papers, a resource as useful to seasoned teachers as to homeschoolers coping with the issues for the first time. For the past forty and more years, Michael has graded student papers and written extensive comments on them. He soon tired of writing the same comment for the same mistake year after year and began to put his comments into a word processed archive he could draw upon as he needed. Eventually this archive became extensive and comprehensive. Opus 40 has the archive of his comments, his approach to teaching students how to write formal papers, his approach to grading student papers, and his reflections on, and explanations of, the comments he has written about structure, grammar, punctuation, format, style etc. The CD makes accessible all the comments so that teachers and parents can use them when grading. (Note that these are the same comments that accompanies each of the Advanced Academic Writing Books).