Thanks Donuel.

When I was grading undergraduate papers/essays, I would be awarding marks on papers which showed effective research or information gathering processes, effective evaluation and analysis of the facts, evidence and the review of other research, a good proposition of the theory or proposal in the paper, good evaluation and explanation of that proposal, good proposal and explanation of the process chosen for the study, good deductive logic and clear evaluation of whether the initial proposal of the paper was proved correct or whether further questions were raised and further study may be required.

Opinions and beliefs for the proposed study could be explained within the introductory part of the paper, but if opinions and beliefs were not sustained by the outcomes of the proper rigorous study, then they had no place in the final conclusions.