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Paper 101/3 is intended to test the candidate's ability to communicate in writing. Communication is established at
different levels of intelligibility, correctness, fluency, pleasantness and originality. Within the constrains set by the
question, it is the linguistic competence shown by the candidate that should carry most of the marks.
1. (a) Imaginative Composition.
Examiners should not hesitate to use the full range or marks for each essay. In a two-essay paper, it is the final,
total mark that counts. It is important to determine FIRST how each essay communicates and in which category
A, B, C or D it fits.
GROSS ERRORS
(i) Almost any error or agreement.
(ii) Serious tense error.
(iii) Errors of elementary vocabulary: spelling and misuse of words.
(iv) Punctuation errors or missing punctuation which causes serious lack of communication.
(v) Elementary errors of sentence construction.
(vi) Ridiculous use of idiom that affects communication.
(vii) Misuse of common prepositions.
(viii) Misuse of capital letters
PROBLEM SCRIPTS
1. IRRELEVANCY
(a) Consistent distortion of question, evasion of question, writing on a totally different subject with a clumsy
attempt at connecting the essay to the subject given, inclusion of memorized passages, etc.
(b) The question is given an unacceptable or questionable interruption.
(c) Essays contain long, semi-relevant digressions or lack coherence.
ACTION:
- Mark the essay and give a linguistic mark and comment on the nature of the irrelevancy.
- Deduct up to 4 marks for each irrelevancy depending on the intensity of the irrelevancy.
- If the candidate does not answer the compulsory question in this paper, he should be penalized for irrelevancy.
Points of Interpretation
1. (a)
- Must be a story if not deduct
- Must end with the given statement.
- Must be a maximum of two pages,
- The story should give an experience that due to its nature, magnitude of occurrence, manner and level of
impact, the writer keeps on remembering it or cannot be erased from writer’s mind.
- The experience however must have had negative results so as to lave undesirable effects. (scar)
(b)
- It must be in an argumentative essay if not deduct 4AD for irrelevancy.
- The candidate must either support or oppose. If a candidate supports and opposes at the same time deduct
2AD for semi irrelevancy.
-The arguments must be supported by facts / proven information
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