Score |
Rhetoric/Content Rubric |
Conventions Rubric |
4 |
Advanced Proficient The paper does all or most of the following: • Clearly addresses all parts of the writing task. • Provides a meaningful thesis and maintains a consistent tone and focus and purposefully illustrates a control of organization. • Thoughtfully supports the thesis and main ideas with specific details and examples. • Provides a variety of sentence types, transitional devices, and uses precise, descriptive language. • Demonstrates a clear sense of audience and purpose. • Uses a consistent and confident voice. • Authoritatively supports a position with precise and relevant evidence and convincingly addresses the reader's concerns, biases, and expectations. • Seamlessly uses citations and quotations from primary and secondary sources. (where appropriate) |
• Demonstrates a command of usage while using a variety of complex ideas and/or sentence structures. • May contain few, if any, errors in the conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). • These errors do not interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing or the effectiveness of the writing style. • Errors may be due to risk taking as student attempts sophisticated grammatical structures. • Works cited/title page correct MLA format with no errors. • Reflect legible and appropriate manuscript format |
3 |
Proficient The paper does all or most of the following: • Addresses all parts of the writing task. • Provides a thesis and maintains a consistent tone an focus and illustrates a control of organization. • Supports the thesis and main ideas with details and examples. • Use persuasive language and generally appeals to emotions and logic through some r reasoning. • Provides a variety of sentence types, and transitional devices and uses some descriptive language. • Demonstrates a general sense of audience. • Maintains a confident voice. • Generally supports a position with relevant evidence and addresses the reader's concerns, biases, and expectations. • May have an inconsistent mix of citations and quotations from primary and secondary sources. |
• Demonstrates general evidence of control of common usage. Writer has control of sentence boundaries. • Contains some errors or more than one kind of error in the conventions of English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). • These errors do not interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing, and the essay may be read with relative ease and few distractions. • Some attempt at complex sentence structure may cause minor errors in the conventions of English language. • Works cited/title page with correct MLA format and a few errors. • Reflect legible and appropriate manuscript format |
2 |
Partially Proficient The paper does some or all of the following: • Addresses only parts of the writing task. • May provide a thesis and maintains an inconsistent tone and focus and illustrates little, if any, control of organization. • May support the thesis and main ideas with limited, if any, details and/or examples. • Uses basic language and fails to appeal to emotion and logic. • Provides few, if any, types of sentences, and transitional devices, and uses basic, predictable language. • Demonstrates little or no sense of audience. • Uses a voice which may waiver. • May lack sufficient support with little, if any, evidence and may address the reader's concerns, biases, and expectations. • There may be a mix of quotations and citations, but quotes are left without explanation and the use of citations. |
• Demonstrates some evidence of control of common usage. • Contains several errors in the conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). • These errors may interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing, but most of the essay can be read with comprehension of the writer's intent. • Sentences are all or mostly simple construction. • Works cited/title page incorrect MLA format with many errors. • Reflect legible and appropriate manuscript format |
1 |
Non-Proficient The paper does some or all of the following: • Addresses only one part of the writing task. • May provide a weak, if any, thesis; fails to maintain a focus, and illustrates little, or no, control of organization. • Fails to support ideas with details and/or examples. • Uses irrelevant language and fails to appeal to emotion and logic. • Provides no sentence variety and transitional devices and uses limited. vocabulary. There are no citations and no quotations. • Demonstrates no sense of audience. • Fails to support a position with any evidence and fails to address the reader's concerns, biases, an expectations. • There are no citations and no quotations. |
• Demonstrates limited/little control of usage; or the piece may be so limited that there is little on which to base judgment. • Contains serious errors in the conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). • The errors interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing and may be unintelligible. • Demonstrates little awareness of sentence structure beyond simple sentences. • Works cited/title page with predominate errors. • Reflect legible and appropriate manuscript format |
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