LAW105 Introduction to Business Law Assessment

Criteria (total mark is out of 20)

High Distinction

85 - 100%

Distinction

75 84%

Credit

65 74%

Pass

50 65%

Fail

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Identification of legal issues and relevant law, including accessing and summarising resources and legal sources (11)

Identification of all relevant issues and law.

Demonstrates skilful use of high quality, credible, relevant sources.

An excellent summary of relevant information.

Identification of most issues and relevant law. Demonstrates selection of credible, relevant sources from relevant sources.

Accurate summary of relevant information

Identification of key issues and questions of law. Demonstrates an attempt to use credible and/or relevant sources. Summary of information could be improved.

Identification of few or basic issues and relevant law. Attempt to use credible and/or relevant sources. Some capacity to summarise information.

Failure to identify basic or fundamental issues and relevant law. Very limited range of sources utilised.

Unable to demonstrate ability to summarise information.

Analysis and

Application

(11)

Excellent ability to appraise evidence, evaluate arguments and to formulate and express very sound conclusions.

Extensive analysis

of options available and their relevance to the case in point.

An excellent application of interpretation rules and steps of procedural analysis and clearly articulated arguments which provided a strong framework.

Good demonstration of the capacity to

critically analyse information, formulate own conclusions and express own ideas.

A good analysis of options available and their relevance to the case in point.

Very good application of the appropriate interpretation rules and steps of procedural analysis.

Reasonable analysis of information. Demonstrated ability to draw warranted conclusions and generalisations and demonstrates some original thought.

A reasonable attempt to analyse options available and their relevance to the case in point but analysis requires more depth.

Appropriate interpretation rules and steps of procedural analysis identified and a reasonable attempt to apply to case study.

Limited ability to interpret data,

appraise evidence or evaluate arguments. Conclusions need improvement and need to express own ideas.

Some attempt at

analysis of options available and their relevance to the case in point. Explores a few dimensions but lacks depth. Some reference to interpretation rules and procedural analysis steps required but not adequately applied to the task.

Little or no critical analysis or interpretation of information, poor

conclusions and no original thought.

Limited analysis of

options available and their relevance to the case in point.

Mainly descriptive report.

Limited or no reference to interpretation rules and procedural analysis steps required.

Synthesis

(8)

? Structure

? Logic

? Presentation

Well-constructed assignment:

appropriate, clear, and smooth transitions; arrangement of organisational elements is particularly apt; uses sophisticated legal wording in

sentences effectively; usually chooses words aptly; observes professional conventions of written English and report format; free of spelling, grammatical, punctuation and typing errors.

Well written and presented

assignment: distinct units of thought in paragraphs; clear transitions between developed, coherent, and logically arranged paragraphs; a few mechanical difficulties or stylistic problems; may make occasional problematic word choices or syntax errors; a few spelling or punctuation errors or a clich; uses

appropriate formal report format

Reasonably written and presented; some

awkward transitions; some brief, weakly unified or undeveloped paragraphs; arrangement may not appear entirely natural; contains extraneous information, more frequent wordiness; unclear or awkward sentences; imprecise use of words or over- reliance on passive

voice; some distracting grammatical errors; some spelling, punctuation and typing errors.

Not consistently or logically structured:

Narrates/ digresses from one topic to another; awkward use of words, numerous errors in style & presentation including spelling punctuation and grammar. Not comfortable with a formal style of written communication.

Simplistic, tends to narrate or merely

summarise.

Illogical arrangement of ideas & some major grammatical or proofreading errors.

Language frequently weakened by clichs, colloquialisms, and repeated inexact word choices. Unaware of how to present formal written communication.