They are kindly disposed toward students and are impressed by those who seriously attempt to address all elements of the assignment. Faculty consultants try hard to understand students' compositions, and give them the benefit of the doubt whenever possible. The composition affords students the best opportunity to emphasize their strong points, to give full rein to their creative impulses, even to show off some. Faculty consultants are impressed by appropriate, rich, varied, and idiomatically correct vocabulary. They like to see correct use of advanced grammatical forms such as relative pronouns, the subjunctive, modal auxiliaries, and the passive, as well as consistent tense usage with clear distinctions in levels of time in the past.
Syntax is also important.
Students should construct sentences with normal, inverted, and subordinate word order so that they can demonstrate facility with the various kinds of sentence structure and reveal a developing awareness of style. These include adequate length, so that the faculty consultant does not have to count words, the seriousness with which students take the assignment, flair, and a sense of humor. This entire site protected by copyright. All rights reserved.