Record T4 · 1919 / 1928
T4: Incident Narrative
Actual writing year is not stated; published in 1928. Ninth-grade-level Book Three context; exact writer grade and age unknown.
Original student excerpt
It was a cold night in mid-October. We were in an open Cadillac bound for Bedford, a hundred miles nearer our destination. It seemed a shame to pass up such a good ride, but we had left our overcoats at home and were shivering like leaves in a breeze. We got out at Chambersburg, therefore, thanked the driver, and began wondering how we should spend the night.
Four consecutive sentences from the typeset composition; original spelling and punctuation preserved.
Prompt and conditions
Original Unknown prompt. Original prompt unknown. The printed story was later offered for criticism of focus, introduction, unity, sustained interest, and possible improvement.
- 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 claimCold and inadequate clothing make a useful ride untenable and create a lodging problem.
Ideas and relationships7 coded units. Weather, open car, progress, opportunity cost, missing coats, physical effect, and decision form constraint-based reasoning.
AbstractionEmerging
Causal reasoningMultistep
Qualification / counterargumentWeighed Alternative
Evidence usePersonal Detail
OrganizationSetting Conflict Decision New Problem
Sentence controlControlled
Lexical precisionSpecific
Articulation limitThe trip purpose is outside the excerpt, and no alternative to leaving the car is evaluated.
These are descriptive codes, not scores. No composite or rank is calculated. The story was openly offered for later criticism, not identified as a winner; textbook selection and absent score prevent a middle-band claim.