| Criteria / Topics | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideas and Content | -1/2 | -1/2 | -1/2 | -1/2 | -1/2 | -1/2 |
| Support: explanations, quotations, and five or more sentences | ||||||
| Accuracy: content, quotations (capitalization), and titles | ||||||
| Originality: plagiarism from internet; plagiarism from other students | ||||||
| Paraphrasing: ineffective paraphrasing and quoting instead of paraphrasing | ||||||
| Focus: relevance and sequence | ||||||
| Integration: awkward, not embedded, ends of sentences | ||||||
| Sources: full introduction on first reference | ||||||
| Organization and Structure | ||||||
| Introduction: introduction and bridge | -1 | |||||
| Thesis: missing, weak, not at end | -1/2 | |||||
| Body: topic sentences: missing, weak | -1/2 | |||||
| Paragraphing: illogical organization or missing point | -1 | |||||
| Transitions: topic sentences, paragraphs | -1 | |||||
| Conclusions: missing, weak, transitional | -1/2 | |||||
| Conclusion | -1 | |||||
| Voice | ||||||
| Formal tone (no contractions, no slang [ton]) | -1 | |||||
| Person (no first or second person if possible) | -1 | |||||
| Diction (word choice) | ||||||
| Sophistication (do not use quote, a lot, lots, thing, big) | -1 | |||||
| Sentence Fluency | ||||||
| No fragments, run-ons, comma splices | -2/6 | |||||
| Correct coordinate conjunctions and connectives | -1 | |||||
| Correct parallelism | -1 | |||||
| No weak sentences (There is/are, is when/where/because) | -1 | |||||
| Appropriate sentence variety (S., Cd., Cx., Cd.-Cx.) | -1 | |||||
| No awkward sentences | -1 | |||||
| Conventions | ||||||
| Correct spelling, capitalization (names, titles), apostrophes | -0.5 | |||||
| Correct verb agreement, tense, voice, mood | -0.5 | |||||
| Correct pronoun case, agreement, reference | -0.5 | |||||
| Correct general punctuation | -0.
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