Examples of Good and Bad Written Work

Here's a good one! You don't have to write this big, but it's no problem if you do. I liked the way this student computed the discriminant before plugging into the quadratic formula. Shows good training.

Here's another good one! It's clear enough, but I can't help but sigh when students don't do the discriminant first when using the quadratic formula.

Here's a bad one. Paper has lines. Background is gray. Spacings aren't too bad, but the faint writing against a gray background is torture for the eyes of the grader.

Here's another bad one. The student tries to use every square millimeter, left to right, across the page, which makes it hard to read and impossible for the grader to get a word in, edgewise. This student also liked to work problems next to each other, instead of putting the next problem under the problem that went before.