For an essay in the global history exam about human rights violations, for example, the scoring key directed teachers to give a 2 to an essay that "provides a weak definition of the term 'human rights,' " and "is a poorly organized essay, lacking focus".
In this response to Kymlicka, I argue that his essay lacks sufficient historical reflexivity to assess the changing conjunctures that continuously restructure the conditions for struggle over wealth redistribution and social welfare.
However, without an apology (which the essay lacks), no true healing can be found.
But the essay lacks the essence of Seattle from the street, the qualitative sense of the city's success from the look and feel of direct and knowing experience.
Inevitably, perhaps, these essays lack the fingertip feel of his other work, the sure touch that comes from years of consideration.
It has been suggested, as well, that some of the concepts central to Bosanquet's work are problematic or not clearly defined, and that several of his essays lack the logical rigor that one finds in material destined for the more specialized audience of academic philosophers.
But his analysis in his essay titled "Decline and Fall," though demonstrating a respect for facts and clarity that one would expect from a conscientious journalist, unlike almost all the other essays, lacks any fruitful suggestions about how California might dig itself out of the pit it finds itself in.
May I suggest that the reason for the essay's lack of substance regarding Barack Obama's ideas is that his campaign feels more like a pleasant horoscope than like a run for the Presidency?
If meeting the October deadline means a poorly prepared GMAT test and hurried essays that lack definition and impact, wait for the next round.
The analysis of learner corpus data and their comparison with data from native corpora have highlighted a number of problems which non-native learners experience when writing academic essays, e.g., lack of register awareness, phraseological infelicities, and semantic misuse.
