Record T1 · 1919 / 1928
T1: Evaluation Or Experience
Actual writing year is not stated; published in 1928. Ninth-grade-level Book Three context; exact writer grade and age unknown.
Original student excerpt
Tennis will soon be the leading game in America. It contains everything a good game should have: it develops arms, legs, and mind; it requires intelligence and skill; and it needs little equipment. The size of the player doesn’t count either. Johnson is about five feet, five inches high, but he is one of the outstanding players in the country.
Four consecutive sentences from the typeset theme; original spelling and punctuation preserved.
Prompt and conditions
Original Unknown prompt. Original student prompt unknown. The printed themes were later used to ask readers to state each composition's thought in one sentence and identify unrelated material.
- Source conditions
- Source Free; unknown.
- Time
- Exact duration unknown. unknown
- Production / archive
- unknown; typeset reproduction.
- Drafting
- unknown; textbook describes self/class criticism generally but no retained theme history.
- Population and selection
- Anonymous pupil themes in a ninth-grade-level 1928 junior-high textbook; exact writer grades, ages, schools, and geography unknown. Textbook-selected instructional examples; no score or population frame.
Scorer and feedback role
Editor Or Textbook Author. Not an authenticated classroom-teacher feedback pair.
- Original source classification
- No original score survives. No original-assignment score survives.
- Form
- Later Instructional Use; not response-specific.
- Revision after feedback
- None survives.
Read the evidence coding
Conceptual claimTennis merits prominence because it develops body and mind, requires skill, costs little, and does not favor size.
Ideas and relationships8 coded units. Forecast, evaluative criteria, benefits, skill, equipment, size objection, and athlete example form a criteria-based argument.
AbstractionSustained
Causal reasoningSimple
Qualification / counterargumentImplicit Objection Answer
Evidence useExample No Source
OrganizationThesis Reasons Objection Example
Sentence controlControlled
Lexical precisionSpecific
Articulation limitThe forecast and mental benefit are unsupported, and the athlete example lacks source context.
These are descriptive codes, not scores. No composite or rank is calculated. A routine pupil theme used for unity criticism, not a contest entry; absent score and editorial history prevent a middle-band claim.