Grading Rubric for Analysis and Application (15%) Criteria Excellent Good Fair Poor Score Issue Correctly identified Correctly identified Not correctly No issue stated identified, Fully, clearly, and Not stated as a incomplete, or accurately stated as question but is for unclear a question the most part, clear and accurate Rule Correctly identified Rule stated was not No rule identified Correctly identified rule and it is fully correct or rule and it is fully quoted significantly quoted incomplete Rule stated as a Rule was not stated yes/no statement as a yes/no statement Analysis Fully, clearly, and Correctly identifies Facts not correctly No analysis accurately facts. identified. describes a good, Poor reasoning Analysis is plausible legal relating facts to incoherent. argument by both of rule. One or more the parties on each Slightly lacking in of the and every point of completeness, application of the the rule. accuracy, or clarity rule by one or both Well-reasoned in describing a of the parties is discussion relating good, plausible missing, incorrect, facts to rule. legal argument by incomplete, unclear, both of the parties or weak. on every point of the rule Conclusion Complete Mostly complete Incomplete and No conclusion summation and correct incorrect summation Re-states issue and Does not re-state Lengthy or add a rule issue and rule new argument not found in the One sub-part of the application/analysis application of the section. rule by one of the parties is missing, incorrect, incomplete, unclear, or weak. Writing Professional Written responses Written responses Reflects little to no language are largely free of include some effort No grammatical, grammatical, grammatical, punctuation, or spelling or spelling or punctuation errors. punctuation errors spelling errors. that distract the The style of writing The mistakes do not reader. facilitates detract from communication. understanding The style of writing generally facilitates communication.
Grading Rubric for Analysis and Application (15%) Criteria Excellent Good Fair Poor Score Issue Correctly identified Fully, clearly, and accurately stated as a question Correctly identified Not stated as a question but is for the most part, clear and accurate Not correctly identified, incomplete, or unclear No issue stated Rule Correctly identified rule and it is fully quoted Rule stated as a yes/no statement Correctly identified rule and it is fully quoted Rule was not stated as a yes/no statement Rule stated was not correct or significantly incomplete No rule identified Analysis Fully, clearly, and accurately describes a good, plausible legal argument by both of the parties on each and every point of the rule. Well-reasoned discussion relating facts to rule. Correctly identifies facts. Poor reasoning relating facts to rule. Slightly lacking in completeness, accuracy, or clarity in describing a good, plausible legal argument by both of the parties on every point of the rule Facts not correctly identified. Analysis is incoherent. One or more of the application of the rule by one or both of the parties is missing, incorrect, incomplete, unclear, or weak. No analysis Conclusion Complete summation Re-states issue and rule Mostly complete and correct Does not re-state issue and rule One sub-part of the application of the rule by one of the parties is missing, incorrect, incomplete, unclear, or weak. Incomplete and incorrect summation Lengthy or add a new argument not found in the application/analysis section. No conclusion Writing Professional language No grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors. The style of writing facilitates communication. Written responses are largely free of grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. The mistakes do not detract from understanding The style of writing generally facilitates communication. Written responses include some grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors that distract the reader. Reflects little to no effort
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