The document outlines a rubric for grading written assignments. It provides criteria for organization, level of content, development, grammar/mechanics, style, and format. For each criterion, it describes standards for below, meets, exceeds, and far exceeds expectations. For example, for organization it describes below as lacking logical organization, meets as coherent and logically organized with some transitions, exceeds as coherent and logically organized with transitions used throughout, and far exceeds as showing a high degree of attention to logic and reasoning.
The document outlines a rubric for grading written assignments. It provides criteria for organization, level of content, development, grammar/mechanics, style, and format. For each criterion, it describes standards for below, meets, exceeds, and far exceeds expectations. For example, for organization it describes below as lacking logical organization, meets as coherent and logically organized with some transitions, exceeds as coherent and logically organized with transitions used throughout, and far exceeds as showing a high degree of attention to logic and reasoning.
The document outlines a rubric for grading written assignments. It provides criteria for organization, level of content, development, grammar/mechanics, style, and format. For each criterion, it describes standards for below, meets, exceeds, and far exceeds expectations. For example, for organization it describes below as lacking logical organization, meets as coherent and logically organized with some transitions, exceeds as coherent and logically organized with transitions used throughout, and far exceeds as showing a high degree of attention to logic and reasoning.
The document outlines a rubric for grading written assignments. It provides criteria for organization, level of content, development, grammar/mechanics, style, and format. For each criterion, it describes standards for below, meets, exceeds, and far exceeds expectations. For example, for organization it describes below as lacking logical organization, meets as coherent and logically organized with some transitions, exceeds as coherent and logically organized with transitions used throughout, and far exceeds as showing a high degree of attention to logic and reasoning.
STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD (2.75 AND (2.5-1.75) (1.5-1.25) (1.0) BELOW) ORGANIZATION Writing lacks Writing is Writing is Writing shows logical coherent and coherent and high degree of organization. It logically logically organized attention to logic shows some organized. Some with transitions and reasoning of coherence but points remain used between points. Unity ideas lack unity. misplaced and ideas and clearly leads the Serious errors. stray from the paragraphs to reader to the topic. Transitions create coherence. conclusion and evident but not Overall unity of stirs thought used throughout ideas is present. regarding the essay. topic. LEVEL OF Shows some Content indicates Content indicates Content indicates CONTENT thinking and thinking and original thinking synthesis of ideas, reasoning but reasoning applied and develops in-depth analysis most ideas are with original ideas with and evidences underdeveloped thought on a few sufficient and firm original thought and unoriginal. ideas. evidence. and support for the topic. DEVELOPMENT Main points lack Main points are Main points well Main points well detailed present with developed with developed with development. limited detail and quality supporting high quality and Ideas are vague development. details and quantity support. with little Some critical quantity. Critical Reveals high evidence of thinking is thinking is degree of critical critical thinking. present. weaved into thinking. points GRAMAR AND Spelling, Most spelling, Essay has few Essay is free of MECHANICS punctuation, and punctuation, and spelling, distracting grammatical grammar correct punctuation, and spelling, errors create allowing reader to grammatical punctuation, and distraction, progress though errors allowing grammatical making reading essay. Some reader to follow errors; absent of difficult; errors remain. ideas clearly. Very fragments, fragments, few fragments or comma splices, comma splices, run-ons. and run-ons. run-ons evident. Errors are frequent. STYLE Mostly in Approaches Attains college Shows elementary form college level level style; tone is outstanding style with little or no usage of some appropriate and going beyond variety in variety in rhetorical devices usual college sentence sentence used to enhance level; rhetorical structure, diction, patterns, diction, content; sentence devices and tone rhetorical devices and rhetorical variety used used effectively; or emphasis. devices effectively. creative use of sentence structure and coordination FORMAT Fails to follow Meets format and Meets format and Meets all formal format and assignment assignment and assignment assignment requirements; requirements; requirements and requirements; generally correct margins, spacing, evidences incorrect margins, margins, spacing, and indentations attention to spacing and and indentations; are correct; essay detail; all margins, indentation; essay is neat but is neat and spacing and neatness of essay may have some correctly indentations are needs attention. assembly errors. assembled. correct; essay is neat and correctly assembled with professional look.