Good Thesis Statement OK Thesis Statement Poor Thesis Statement No Thesis Statement Good Sentences OK Topic Sentences Poor Sentences No Topic Sentences Relevant Logical Mostly Relevant Some Relevant No relevant supporting Supporting Sentences Supporting Sentences Supporting Sentences sentences COHERENCE Repeats Key Some relationship Poor relationship No relationship Word in Thesis between Title and essay between and essay between Title and essay Statement Uses TRANSITION Poor use of No sense of how to use Uses TRANSITION WORDS adequately TRANSITION logical sequence or WORDS well WORDS transitions Good use of Poor use of No sense of how to use Some use of REPEATED KEY REPEATED KEY KEY WORDS at all REPEATED KEY WORDS WORDS WORDS Smooth transitions Poor transitions from No sense of transitions; OK transitions from from S->S/ P->P P->P no coherence at all P->P ORIGINALITY Some of the writing Original, honest, unique Unreadable, incoherent, Struggles to find based on vague beliefs, - shows thorough filled with so many original but is assumptions and research yet expresses editing errors that the honest and shows good cliched ideas; some original ideas in a reader simply can not effort; contains some researched, but shows passionate personal follow the thread. cliches and limited understanding voice; good use of Ps assumptions; pretty Plagiarized or copied – of how to use Ps + Qs and Qs to support good use of Ps and Qs if so, assignment gets and not much effort to original ideas. Shows a to support somewhat an F for the student’s support ideas, cliched sense of discovery and original ideas. Shows first offense, and and trite; may be very scholarship; fun to read; some sense of student is dropped for difficult to read enjoyable discovery, occasionally the second offense difficult to read The advantage of an online post, (for an English assignment, anyway) is that students must what they know” in writing, and therefore, post helps students improve their “show reading and writing skills. Every good late semester English 100 post shows the depth of their reading comprehension, the quality of their writing, as well as the quality of their research.
Good Thesis Statement Good Sentences Relevant Logical Supporting Sentences OK Thesis Statement OK Topic Sentences Mostly Relevant Supporting Sentences Poor Thesis Statement Poor Sentences Some Relevant Supporting Sentences No Thesis Statement No Topic Sentences No relevant supporting sentences COHERENCE Repeats Key Word in Thesis Statement Uses TRANSITION WORDS well Good use of REPEATED KEY WORDS Smooth transitions from S->S/ P->P Some relationship between Title and essay Uses TRANSITION WORDS adequately Some use of REPEATED KEY WORDS OK transitions from P->P Poor relationship between and essay Poor use of TRANSITION WORDS Poor use of REPEATED KEY WORDS Poor transitions from P->P No relationship between Title and essay No sense of how to use logical sequence or transitions No sense of how to use KEY WORDS at all No sense of transitions; no coherence at all ORIGINALITY Original, honest, unique - shows thorough research yet expresses original ideas in a passionate personal voice; good use of Ps and Qs to support original ideas. Shows a sense of discovery and scholarship; fun to read; enjoyable Struggles to find original but is honest and shows good effort; contains some cliches and assumptions; pretty good use of Ps and Qs to support somewhat original ideas. Shows some sense of discovery, occasionally difficult to read Some of the writing based on vague beliefs, assumptions and cliched ideas; some researched, but shows limited understanding of how to use Ps + Qs and not much effort to support ideas, cliched and trite; may be very difficult to read Unreadable, incoherent, filled with so many editing errors that the reader simply can not follow the thread. Plagiarized or copied – if so, assignment gets an F for the student’s first offense, and student is dropped for the second offense The advantage of an online post, (for an English assignment, anyway) is that students must “show what they know” in writing, and therefore, post helps students improve their reading and writing skills. Every good late semester English 100 post shows the depth of their reading comprehension, the quality of their writing, as well as the quality of their research.
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