Rubric for Assignment 10
RUBRIC FOR ASSIGNMENT 10
ACCURACY, CLARITY AND COMPLEXITY OF CONTENT (30 total) __________
1. Your ability to establish the significance of your topic, as detailed by the prompt, and the relevance of your claims for this moment in time for your specific audience, students, faculty and staff at Hofstra University;
2. Your ability to treat your topic with substance, showing the quality of your research and understanding of the history of your topic as well as the scholarship written about it from various academic fields;
3. Your ability to engage with other writers thoughtfully, including the fair use and attribution of their work as well as your consideration of counterarguments and your ability to craft rebuttals to opposing points of view;
4. The strength of your claims––whether they are causal, evaluative, and/or proposal arguments––and the strength of the evidence and reasoning you employ to back up your claims.
EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION (10 total) ________
1. Structure Overall. (Logical, coherent organization; transitions between paragraphs)
2. Structure within paragraphs. (Paragraph unity/coherence; transitions among paragraphs)
CLARITY AND SOPHISTICATION OF PROSE (10 total) __________
1. Sentence-level rhetoric (grammar and mechanics) and style (clarity; word choice; complexity of language)
2. Introduction and integration of quoted material
Point Deductions
(Up to 5 points deducted for each category; lack of Works Cited page is an automatic 5 point deduction)
Failure to meet source requirement __________
Failure to meet length requirement __________
Incorrect Formatting (i.e., length, spacing, font, margins) __________
Incorrect MLA Citations __________
Lack of Works Cited Page (automatic 5 points off) __________
Missing Page numbers __________
Lack of careful proofreading __________
Late Draft __________