Download Español 115 – SLU – Primavera 2008 – Composición 2

Español 115 – SLU – Primavera 2008 – Composición 2
Fecha de entrega
Miércoles 16 de abril, 2008
Tema
Escribir sobre la vida de alguien (famoso o no) de uno
de estos países: Costa Rica, Argentina, Honduras, El
Salvador, Bolivia, la República Dominicana, Puerto
Rico, Uruguay, o Paraguay.
¿Cómo y cuánto?
Escribiendo en el pasado, usando pretérito e imperfecto
300-500 palabras + bibliografía
Escrito a máquina
Doble espacio
Help?
It is absolutely essential that this composition be your own work. Spanish
teachers can tell rather easily when a student has gotten help from a more
advanced speaker, has copied, or has used a translator (for example an online
translator). If your paper is found not to be your own work, you will receive a zero
and you may be reported.
Although you have been instructed not to seek outside help, you are, of
course, very welcome to ask your instructor specific questions about the paper.
Especially if you are confused about part of this assignment, please do not hesitate
to ask.
As stated above, you can write about a famous person or about someone
you know (of) personally. Either way, your information has to come from
somewhere. Please cite all sources you consulted in your bibliography and be
very careful not to copy word-for-word from any of these sources.
Remember that you will have to keep your language relatively simple,
since you are only in your first year of college-level Spanish studies. Try to stick
to words you know and grammar structures you are familiar with. In this paper,
you should write mostly in the past tense, using the preterit and imperfect, but of
course there may be occasions to write in other tenses, depending on your
message.
We will not do peer review activities in class this time, but you should use
those same techniques when you read over and edit your own work, especially in
the practice of double checking agreement (gender, number) between nouns and
adjectives, and between subjects (stated or not) and verbs.
You will, however, be given some time in the Sony Lab on April 15 to
work on the paper and ask the lab instructors questions. Make sure that you can
access your current draft of the paper in lab that day, for example by bringing
a copy of it on a flash drive or by emailing it to yourself.
Español 115 – SLU – Primavera 2008 – Composición 2
Grading rubric to be handed in along with the paper
A description of a paper earning full credit is given for each category.
I. ORIGINALITY AND RESEARCH ______
10- There is no indication that any of the paper has been copied or written by someone else or
crafted by using online translators. If quotes are used, they are cited correctly and used
sparingly. The student has a bibliography (this can include websites and interviews).
II. VERB CONJUGATION ______
10- The student was able to express his or her idea using the verb tenses that he or she
controls already. Verbs are conjugated correctly. The subject and verb agree. Preterit and
imperfect are used correctly.
III. VOCABULARY ______
7- The student was able to express his or her message with SPAN115-level vocabulary and
rarely (or never) needed to use words that he or she looked up elsewhere. The words that are
used are used properly. No words are repeated excessively.
IV. COHESIVENESS ______
5- The paper has a point to it and it is communicated. There is connection between all parts of
the paper. Each paragraph develops one full idea that in turn contributes to the overall
message of the paper.
V. AGREEMENT ______
5- Nouns are assigned the correct gender (m/f). Definite articles (el, la, los, las) and indefinite
articles (un, una, unos, unas) are correct. Adjectives agree in number and gender with the
nouns they modify.
VI. MISC. GRAMMAR ______
5- The grammar is solid. For example, adjectives come after nouns (except for those few that
should come before, such as bueno/ malo, mucho, and ordinal numbers); negation words are
placed properly; possessive adjectives (for example, su) agree with the noun they modify;
pronoun use (things like se... le... lo... ellos) is controlled.
VII. FORM ______
5- Words are spelled correctly, including accents, which are typed and not written by hand.
The paper is double-spaced. The final product is at least 300 words and not more than 500.
VIII. TOPIC ______
3- The student has indeed written about the life of someone from Costa Rica, Argentina,
Honduras, El Salvador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, or
Paraguay. The student turned this rubric in with the paper.
______ / 50 possible points