Assignment Rubric: Defending or Prosecuting Criteria 4 3 2 1 Exemplary Proficient Needs Unacceptable Improvement Evidence Cited There are 3 sounds There are at least There is only one There is no clear reasons from the 2 pieces of piece of evidence evidence from the text that work to evidence from the from the text that text that works to support the text that work to works to support support the argument. support the the argument. argument. argument. Well-written The argument The argument is The argument has The argument is Argument flows well and has easy to follow and few transitions hard to follow and (cohesiveness, transitions when has appropriate and grammatical grammatical errors transitions, free of needed. The transitions. There errors are kind of distract from the grammatical argument is free are few distracting. reading of the text. errors, etc…) on grammatical grammatical errors. errors. Following of The argument The argument is The argument has The argument is writing prompt meets the close to/meets the at least two full short of the and directions required length required length paragraphs and required length (length, letter and follows the and most points sort of follows the and does not format, etc…) topic exactly. follow the topic. topic. closely follow the topic. Presentation of The speaker The speaker The speaker’s The speaker’s argument presents a sound presents a clear argument is a little argument is argument and argument and hard to follow and incomprehensible evidence is most evidence is some of the and none of the relevant to the relevant to the evidence is evidence is claim. claim. relevant to the relevant to the claim. claim.
Criteria 4 3 2 1 Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement Unacceptable Evidence Cited There are 3 sounds reasons from the text that work to support the argument. There are at least 2 pieces of evidence from the text that work to support the argument. There is only one piece of evidence from the text that works to support the argument. There is no clear evidence from the text that works to support the argument. Well-written Argument (cohesiveness, transitions, free of grammatical errors, etc…) The argument flows well and has transitions when needed. The argument is free on grammatical errors. The argument is easy to follow and has appropriate transitions. There are few grammatical errors. The argument has few transitions and grammatical errors are kind of distracting. The argument is hard to follow and grammatical errors distract from the reading of the text. Following of writing prompt and directions (length, letter format, etc…) The argument meets the required length and follows the topic exactly. The argument is close to/meets the required length and most points follow the topic. The argument has at least two full paragraphs and sort of follows the topic. The argument is short of the required length and does not closely follow the topic. Presentation of argument The speaker presents a sound argument and evidence is relevant to the claim. The speaker presents a clear argument and most evidence is relevant to the claim. The speaker’s argument is a little hard to follow and some of the evidence is relevant to the claim. The speaker’s argument is incomprehensible and none of the evidence is relevant to the claim. Assignment Rubric: Defending or Prosecuting
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