| Criteria | Scoring Scale | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Ideas and Content | Support: explanations, quotations, and five or more sentences | -1/2 |
| Accuracy: content, quotations (capitalization), and titles | -1/2 | |
| Originality: plagiarism from internet; plagiarism from other students | -1/2 | |
| Paraphrasing: ineffective paraphrasing and quoting instead of paraphrasing | -1/2 | |
| Focus: relevance and sequence | -1/2 | |
| Integration: awkward, not embedded, ends of sentences | -1/2 | |
| Sources: full introduction on first reference | -1/2 | |
| 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) | -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 | -0.5 | |
| Correct punctuation with quotations, documentation, titles | -0.5 | |
| Documentation | Correct formatting including titles indicated correctly | -1/2 |
| Adequate documentation of paraphrasing | -1/2 | |
| Correct documentation of quotations | -1/2 | |
| Sources cited but not listed | -1/2 | |
| Sources listed but not cited | -1/2 | |
| Presentation | 12 pt. Times New Roman, double-spaced, correct margins | -1 |
| Correct heading, title, pagination | -1 | |
| Spacing: sentences, colons, parentheses, quotation marks, other | -0.5 | |
| Efficient proofreading | -0.5 | |
| Outline | Correct heading, title, no pagination | -0.5 |
| Correct margins, double spacing | -0.5 | |
| Correct format: 1 w/out 2, incomplete, missing quotations | -0.5 | |
| Correct alignment | -0.5 | |
| Correct capitalization (outline, titles, names) | -0.5 | |
| Correct documentation included | -0.5 | |
| Titles indicated correctly | -0.5 | |
| No complete sentences except thesis | -0.5 | |
| Correct punctuation | -0.5 | |
| Correct spacing: colons, slashes, parentheses, quotation marks, other | -0.5 | |
| Works Cited | Correct heading, title, pagination | -0.5 |
| Correct margins, double spacing | -0.5 | |
| Entries: hanging indent | -0.5 | |
| Entries: alphabetized by author/title correctly | -0.5 | |
| Correct punctuation | -0.5 | |
| Correct spacing:
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