Group Paraphrase Précis Rubric Content The Good (8-10) The Bad (7-5) The Ugly (4-0) Your Verdict Accuracy of The paraphrase The paraphrase There are places demonstrates an shows that almost where it is obvious Information excellent understanding all key elements that the student did of the article’s content. were understood. not understand the article and did not seek help to understand. Content Clarity A clear and harmonious A decent attempt at The flow of the paraphrase that deconstructing and individual chunk is illustrates an paraphrasing the disharmonious and understanding of content. There may shows a language and content. be a place where dependence on the the flow is thesaurus. It reads disrupted. like Google Translate. Diction and A clear understanding An adequate Again, the Register of the connotations of understanding of paraphrase sounds individual words. The word connotations. like Google academic register is There may be a Translate. There is maintained throughout. misused word or no understanding of two, but the whole diction and register. is good. The structure of the The structure and Grammar is ignored Sentence Structure and original document is grammar is mostly and there are gross Grammar maintained and all maintained in the mistakes. grammar is correct. document. Original All of the work, except Most of the work is Only a few words Thought v. direct quotes, was paraphrased. Some or phrases were paraphrased. words and phrases paraphrased. Written Thought are copied from the original text. The whole document Most of the I can tell that you Cohesiveness reads as if it was written document is did not work by one person. It flows harmonious and together. with little disruption. flows with little interruption. Total Points
Group Paraphrase Précis Rubric Content The Good (8-10) The Bad (7-5) The Ugly (4-0) Your Verdict Accuracy of Information The paraphrase demonstrates an excellent understanding of the article’s content. The paraphrase shows that almost all key elements were understood. There are places where it is obvious that the student did not understand the article and did not seek help to understand. Content Clarity A clear and harmonious paraphrase that illustrates an understanding of language and content. A decent attempt at deconstructing and paraphrasing the content. There may be a place where the flow is disrupted. The flow of the individual chunk is disharmonious and shows a dependence on the thesaurus. It reads like Google Translate. Diction and Register A clear understanding of the connotations of individual words. The academic register is maintained throughout. An adequate understanding of word connotations. There may be a misused word or two, but the whole is good. Again, the paraphrase sounds like Google Translate. There is no understanding of diction and register. Sentence Structure and Grammar The structure of the original document is maintained and all grammar is correct. The structure and grammar is mostly maintained in the document. Grammar is ignored and there are gross mistakes. Original Thought v. Written Thought All of the work, except direct quotes, was paraphrased. Most of the work is paraphrased. Some words and phrases are copied from the original text. Only a few words or phrases were paraphrased. Cohesiveness The whole document reads as if it was written by one person. It flows with little disruption. Most of the document is harmonious and flows with little interruption. I can tell that you did not work together. Total Points