Group Analysis of Sample Papers

Psychology
Strengths:
Interviews had good information
Aside from lack of headings, the paper was organized

Weaknesses:
Too many quotations when they could have paraphrased
Did not introduce a source, thrown it in the middle of paper
Formatting: no headers, title page, lacking punctuation.

Grade: D-

Economics
Strengths:
Proper formatting
Proper in-text citations
Great job comparing academic and non-academic
Well organized

Weaknesses:
Lists were wordy and had a lot of and's
Did not mention an interview
Lacking sub-headings to divide major headings

Grade: B+

Engineering
Strengths:
Great use of examples, analyzed them well
Compared non-academic and academic papers in same heading
Good length, plenty of references

Weaknesses:
(Sinha, Bullock, Hendrickson, Levinson, Lyles, Radwan, Li, 2002) should be (Sinha, et al. 2002)

Grade: A-

Business
Strengths:
Best formatting: Major headers, sub-headers
Very good use of examples, they explained the use of the reference and properly introduce them.
Compared the academic and non-academic papers well. The headers helped.

Weakness:
"Introduction" (Wilcox, 2016). No need to cite a single common word in a paper. Explain the reason for Introduction in a paper.
Introducing graphs/equations was thrown in the middle of a sentence.

Grade: A

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