<p>Topic: Are we free to make our own decisions or are we limited in the choices we make?</p>
<p>My essay is here: ImageShack</a> Album - 2 images</p>
<p>Could someone please grade it? Any comments are appreciated! And how would the graders respond to my handwriting? Is it readable?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>No offence to you or anything just my honest opinion. Your handwriting is very hard to read, perhaps because of the cursive. I cant read some of the words</p>
<p>^I agree that the flowing cursive makes your essay a bit difficult to read. However, your capital S’s and A’s are really cool.</p>
<p>It is pretty though.</p>
<p>Readers are told to ignore handwriting and yet are expected to read and score your essay within a minute. Given your cursive handwriting and potentially persuasive essay based on your thesis, markers are likely to throw a 5 at you based on the “intellectual” impression of your handwriting.</p>
<p>I scored your essay a 10/12, it had good argument structure and content, though I could not read roughly one every ten words. The Rosa Parks and Universities arguments weren’t fully convincing, a little more analysis could’ve pushed you into 11/12 territory.</p>
<p>I’d suggest giving extra thought to writing a persuasive thesis and first example, it could really convince a marker that your essay would be a 6 if legible, as opposed to a 5.</p>
<p>any more opinion please? Thanks</p>
<p>write in print…</p>
<p>I also write in cursive, but I have never seen such illegible cursive. I would love to try to grade your essay; do you mind typing it out?</p>
<p>Your handwriting is pretty but difficult to read. The readers should read anything as long as it’s not completely illegible, but it’ll take more time for them to read your essay, so they’ll be more perceptive to any mistakes.</p>
<p>I’m not a professional grader so I don’t feel right giving your essay a numerical score, but I’ll try to help you improve it. In your examples, especially the Rosa Park example, I think you should have emphasized that your examples were not limited in their possible choices. Perhaps you could have added something like, “According to the law, she was limited to only one choice: giving up her seat to the white man. However, Rosa Parks chose to remain in her seat, prepared to accept the consequences for the sake of challenging the limitations that an unjust law forced upon her.”</p>
