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Welcome to the essay review section of MyChances.net. Here you can provide other students with valuable feedback. Alert them to any grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, or trite expressions you find in their essay. Help the essay writer excise bland statements that fail to convey meaning. Assist them in bringing out their voice and maintaining focus.

Be their hero! For each essay that you rate, you'll receive some MC$ (and the gratitude of the essay's author, of course).


Current essay to evaluate:


Evaluation:

Spelling, grammar, syntax
Low scores indicate frequent, distracting errors.
Medium scores indicate occasional errors.
High scores indicate rare or no errors throughout the paper.

Vocabulary
Low scores indicate inappropriate vocabulary (e.g., 'big words' that don't belong, or childish language).
Medium scores indicate average, appropriate vocabulary.
High scores indicate strong, apt vocabulary, well-suited to the task at hand.

Coherence
Low scores indicate an incoherent, rambling essay that has little theme and makes no clear point.
Medium scores indicate a coherent essay that occasionally strays off topic but generally builds up to a unified message.
High scores indicate a coherent essay that makes a clear point in a succinct fashion.

Quality of thesis
Low scores indicate an essay that expresses a cliched message, or ineffectively expresses a common message.
Medium scores indicate an essay that expresses a common message, but does so effectively.
High scores indicate an essay that expresses a particularly novel, thoughtful, or moving message.

Overall writing level
Scores 1-2 should be reserved for writing at the middle school level.
Scores 3-4 should be reserved for writing at the lower end of the high school level.
Scores 5-6 should be reserved for writing at the upper end of the high school level.
Scores 7-8 should be reserved for writing at the college level.
Scores 9-10 should be reserved for writing at the post-college level.

Strengths
Please discuss one or more strengths of this essay. What did this essay do well?

Weaknesses
Please discuss one or more weaknesses of this essay. How could this essay be improved?