Organization Thesis is in the first Thesis is in the No thesis or thesis paragraph. paragraph. is not in the (30%) Intro could have Introduction has introduction. more background. appropriate No transition Thesis could be background and words. stronger. hooks the reader. No conclusion. Topic sentence(s) Each paragraph Paragraphing is not could be stronger has one idea. clear. reasons or connect to Evidence is in the Hard to follow. thesis. Does not use middle. SEE format. Transition words Body paragraphs connect ideas. could be on different points, include more Conclusion wraps examples, evidence, up the topic and or development. predicts or 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, run-ons, or sentence variety sentence variety. verbs. Hard to and appropriate read. vocabulary.
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 paragraph. Intro could have more background. Thesis could be stronger. Topic sentence(s) could be stronger reasons or connect to thesis. Does not use SEE format. Body paragraphs could be on different points, include more examples, evidence, or development. No thesis or thesis is not in the introduction. No transition words. No conclusion. Paragraphing is not clear. Hard to follow. 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, run-ons, or verbs. Hard to read.
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