Criteria for Keep it up! Opportunities Want to talk? paper 5 on RE, (Met expectations) (Inconsistently met (Didn't meet GFR, and articles expectations) expectations) Content Responds to Responds to the Does not respond assigned topic. assigned topic. to assigned topic. (40%) Is insightful and Has an argument. No argument. interesting. Argument could No details or Shows critical include more critical evidence. thinking. Has a thinking or analysis. Examples may not strong, logical The argument fit the topic. argument. Includes could include more Repetitive or appropriate details, details, examples, confusing content. examples, details, or evidence. It is a book review. and evidence from Evidence could Too many quotes. both books and 2 connect to point Too much articles. better or cite more summary. Evidence is cited correctly. correctly. Organization Thesis is in the first Thesis is in the first No thesis or thesis paragraph. paragraph. is not in the (30%) Introduction has Intro could have introduction. appropriate more background. No transition background and Thesis could be words. hooks the reader. stronger. No conclusion. Each paragraph Topic sentence(s) Paragraphing is not has one idea. could be stronger clear. Evidence is in the reasons or connect Hard to follow. One middle. to thesis. source per Transition words Body paragraphs paragraph. could be on different connect ideas. points, include more Conclusion wraps examples, evidence, up the topic and or development. Not predicts or SEE or MEAL format expands. Grammar virtually free of Noticeable errors in Many distracting sentence errors: awk sentences, errors in awk (30%) awk sentences, punct, sp, frag, sentences, punctuation errors run-ons, verbs, punctuation, sp, or sp errors. Has vocab, pronouns, frags, run-ons, or sentence variety sentence variety. verbs. and appropriate vocabulary.
Criteria for paper 5 on RE, GFR, and articles Keep it up! (Met expectations) Opportunities (Inconsistently met expectations) Want to talk? (Didn't meet expectations) Content (40%) Responds to assigned topic. Is insightful and interesting. Shows critical thinking. Has a strong, logical argument. Includes appropriate details, examples, details, and evidence from both books and 2 articles. Evidence is cited correctly. Responds to the assigned topic. Has an argument. Argument could include more critical thinking or analysis. The argument could include more details, examples, or evidence. Evidence could connect to point better or cite more correctly. Does not respond to assigned topic. No argument. No details or evidence. Examples may not fit the topic. Repetitive or confusing content. It is a book review. Too many quotes. Too much summary. Organization (30%) Thesis is in the first paragraph. Introduction has appropriate background and hooks the reader. Each paragraph has one idea. Evidence is in the middle. Transition words connect ideas. Conclusion wraps up the topic and predicts or expands. Thesis is in the first paragraph. Intro could have more background. Thesis could be stronger. Topic sentence(s) could be stronger reasons or connect to thesis. Body paragraphs could be on different points, include more examples, evidence, or development. Not SEE or MEAL format No thesis or thesis is not in the introduction. No transition words. No conclusion. Paragraphing is not clear. Hard to follow. One source per paragraph. Grammar (30%) virtually free of sentence errors: awk sentences, punctuation errors or sp errors. Has sentence variety and appropriate vocabulary. Noticeable errors in awk sentences, punct, sp, frag, run-ons, verbs, vocab, pronouns, sentence variety. Many distracting errors in awk sentences, punctuation, sp, frags, run-ons, or verbs.
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