Goes beyond minimum required for assignment. 3 Average job does what the assignment asked. Decent reasoning or explanations and supporting material. References are integrated smoothly. Coverage is accurate but cursory.
References are out of context.
Does not meet the minimum required for a complete answer. Missing or plagiarized. Grade drops by 1 for every page more or less than target length. Outstanding paper - Goes beyond grammatical correctness to real readability, a sense of style. 4 Excellent paper organized, interesting, very few spelling or grammatical errors.