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ART HISTORY

Scorer ________________________

Paper ID code _________________

Minimal

Moderate

Excellent/

Unsatisfacto

Proficiency

(4)

ry (1)

(2)

(3)

AIM OF PAPER: Identifies and addresses topic directly; topic addressed corresponds to

assignment; topic, claim or question addressed is relevant for its readership and

appropriate in scope

CONTENT OF PAPER: Content of paper justifies argument/position adopted;

identifies and addresses relevant range of critical/scholarly perspectives; identifies

and addresses sufficient range of pertinent artistic material

STRUCTURE OF PAPER: Uses sections and paragraphs to give logical structure and

fluency to development of argument; uses introductory paragraph(s) to set out

question/thesis to be examined; uses body of text examine question/thesis; uses

concluding paragraph(s) to resolve question/thesis

ARGUMENT OF PAPER: Argument clearly expressed and sustained throughout paper

at the level expected; argument based on appropriate balance between analysis of art

works and analysis of scholarship; use of quotation to strengthen argument, rather

than simply cull factual information; demonstrates awareness of pertinent issues

outside immediate art historical context of paper

ANALYSIS OF ART WORKS: Argument demonstrates critical analysis of artworks at

level expected; argument demonstrates sensitivity to potential and limitations of

artworks under consideration, both in themselves and as discrete categories of

evidence

ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL SOURCES: Argument demonstrates critical analysis of

relevant literature at level expected; makes appropriate distinctions between classes of

evidence and source, e.g. artist's statements, contemporary critics and later

commentators; primary and secondary sources etc

LANGUAGE: Evinces a prose style, a tone, word/terminology/language choices, verb

tenses, syntax, and other stylistic moves appropriate to academic writing in art history

at the undergraduate level

PRESENTATION: Grammar, mechanics, spelling, punctuation, proofreading, and

formatting

CITATIONS: Appropriate, accurate and consistent use of references, citations, and

bibliography in keeping with departmental guidelines (Chicago Style)

HOLISTIC RATING: Assessment of the paper as work of art history, both in its

broadest sense and in the particular form engaged by the topic and genre

Notes: ______________________________________________________________________________________________

Art History Evaluation Chart

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