Determine an Clearly and Clearly presents the Discussion of author’s Discussion of the author’s point of convincingly author’s argument; argument is vague or author’s argument is view or purpose in a presents the author’s discussion of author’s unclear; discussion of off-topic or text in which the argument; use of visual rhetoric author’s use of visual inappropriate; little rhetoric is developed is somewhat rhetoric is somewhat or no discussion of particularly effective, discussion of the developed but lacks developed but lacks the author’s use of analyzing how style author’s use of specificity and specificity; fails to make rhetoric; makes and content visual rhetoric to doesn’t consistently connections between little or not contribute to reinforce the reinforce rhetoric and argument. connection between the…persuasiveness of the text. argument. interpretation of the rhetoric and … argument argument. Introduce precise, is logically Essay is logically is organized, Organization is knowledgeable organized; claims organized; most though confusing at confusing; claims claim(s), establish are effectively claims are effectively times; most claims are are not effectively the significance of introduced and introduced and effectively introduced introduced or the claim(s)… and supported by supported by and supported by supported by create an evidence; transitions evidence; transitions evidence; inconsistent evidence; organization that are consistently used are consistently used use of transitions to transitions are used logically sequences to sequence claims to sequence claims sequence claims and inconsistently or are claim(s), and evidence in an and evidence with evidence. not present. counterclaims, reasons, and elegant manner. few lapses. evidence. Which portion of your OPTIC analysis essay do you think is the strongest? Why? Did you meet the writing you set for yourself before you began writing? Why or why not?
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the…persuasiveness … of the text. Clearly and convincingly presents the author’s argument; developed discussion of the author’s use of visual rhetoric to reinforce the argument. Clearly presents the author’s argument; discussion of author’s use of visual rhetoric is somewhat developed but lacks specificity and doesn’t consistently reinforce interpretation of the argument Discussion of author’s argument is vague or unclear; discussion of author’s use of visual rhetoric is somewhat developed but lacks specificity; fails to make connections between rhetoric and argument. Discussion of the author’s argument is off-topic or inappropriate; little or no discussion of the author’s use of rhetoric; makes little or not connection between rhetoric and argument. Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s)… and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. is logically organized; claims are effectively introduced and supported by evidence; transitions are consistently used to sequence claims and evidence in an elegant manner. Essay is logically organized; most claims are effectively introduced and supported by evidence; transitions are consistently used to sequence claims and evidence with few lapses. is organized, though confusing at times; most claims are effectively introduced and supported by evidence; inconsistent use of transitions to sequence claims and evidence. Organization is confusing; claims are not effectively introduced or supported by evidence; transitions are used inconsistently or are not present. Which portion of your OPTIC analysis essay do you think is the strongest? Why? Did you meet the writing you set for yourself before you began writing? Why or why not?
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