25: Summary.
Does it focus on those aspects of the article that were important for the critique?
Did you select the important points to summarize, rather than just copying
the abstract?
30: Critiques
Did you provide critiques that were original, creative, insightful? Or did you
simply rephrase the list of questions that I gave you? More points for
more thoughtful questions, questions that relate to material covered in
class.
5: General
Did you accurately reflect what was in the paper? Did you provide support for
your ideas? Are there factual errors? Did you suggest alternative experiments
that might be done?
10: Spelling, grammar. You will lose 1 point for each
error in spelling and grammar. Use a spell-checker and, if necessary, an
English-major friend. You will lose 2 points for not knowing:
the difference between affect and effect
the difference between its and it's
the abbreviated form of et alia
when to use "correlation"
the accepted way of writing the Latin names of species
5: Proofreading. You'll lose points if you don't proofread the paper, which becomes obvious if words are missing in a
sentence.