Are there UConn-wide standards for evaluating student writing?
No. You set the criteria appropriate for your course and discipline. If interested, you can find several discipline-specific sample grading rubrics on the University Writing Center website. We recommend that you distribute your expectations for writingand your grading policy early in the semester. How should I respond to sentence-level errors in student writing? Set high standards for editing and stick to them, but also help students meet those high standards. Error-ridden final submissions of assignments should not pass. We might expect more frequent sentence-level problems in drafts, because there writers tend to focus moreon finding their purpose, shaping their ideas and structure, and gathering evidence. Some faculty address sentence-level concerns by working with students individually; some introduce occasional in-class lessons on key usage, style or documentation matters. Another option is referring (but not requiring) students to make appointments with the Writing Center, where
