| Criteria / Topics |
Scoring Scale: 30 points |
| Ideas |
- Your paper should be interesting and demonstrate sophistication of thought.
- The central idea/thesis must be clearly communicated, worth developing, yet limited enough to be manageable.
- The paper should recognize some complexity of your thesis (Examples: contradictions, qualifications, or limits to logical implications).
- Please understand and critically evaluate sources, and appropriately define terms.
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| Organization and Coherence |
- The final essay must have a logical structure, subject, claim, purpose, audience, thesis, and disciplinary field.
- Please use sophisticated transitional sentences to develop one idea from the previous paper sections or identify their logical relations.
- This allows the reader (in this case, the grader) through your chain of reasoning or progression of ideas.
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| Supporting Evidence |
- Please use evidence appropriately and effectively, providing sufficient evidence and explanation to support and your thesis.
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| Style |
- You are required to choose words for their precise meaning and use an appropriate level of specificity.
- Your sentence-style should fit the paper’s audience and purpose.
- Sentences are varied, yet clearly structured and carefully focused, avoid excess jargon.
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| Grammar and Mechanics |
- Your work should be free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors.
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