Senior Project Research Paper Rubric
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• A Persuasive Composition: Exceptionally states & maintains a position, authoritatively defends that position with precise & relevant evidence, & convincingly addresses the reader’s concerns, biases & expectation.
• Provides an exemplary thesis that is responsive to the writing task
• Thoroughly supports the thesis & main ideas with specific details & examples.
• Demonstrates a consistent tone & focus; illustrates a purposeful control of organization.
• Demonstrates an exceptional sense of audience.
• Provides a variety of sentence types & uses precise, descriptive language.
• Contains few, if any, errors in the conventions of the English language.
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• A Persuasive Composition: states & maintains a position, strongly defends that position with precise & relevant evidence, & addresses the reader’s concerns, biases & expectation.
• Provides a meaningful thesis that is responsive to the writing task.
• Supports the thesis & main ideas with specific details & examples.
• Demonstrates a consistent tone & focus; illustrates a solid control of organization.
• Demonstrates a strong sense of audience.
• Provides a variety of sentence types & uses some descriptive language.
• May contain some errors in the conventions of the English language. Errors do not interfere with the reader’s understanding of the essay.
2
• A Persuasive Composition: defends a position with general evidence & attempts to address the reader’s concerns, biases, & expectations.
• Provides a thesis that is responsive to the writing task.
• Supports the thesis & main ideas with specific details & examples.
• Generally demonstrates a consistent tone & focus; illustrates minimal control of organization
• Demonstrates a basic sense of audience.
• Provides few sentence types & uses basic, predictable language.
• May contain errors in the conventions of the English language. Errors may interfere with the reader’s understanding of the essay.
1
• A Persuasive Composition: poorly defends a position with limited evidence and poorly addresses the reader’s concerns, biases & expectations.
• Provides a weak thesis that is related to the writing task.
• Demonstrates an inconsistent tone/focus; illustrates limited control of organization
• Poorly supports the thesis & main ideas with details & examples.
• May demonstrates a limited/minimal sense of audience.
• Provides a limited sentence types & uses limited vocabulary.
• May contains serious errors in the conventions of the English language. Errors interfere with the reader’s understanding of the essay.
Non-Scorable: The code “NS” will appear for responses that are written in a language other than English, off topic, unintelligible, or otherwise non-responsive to the writing task.
SCORING 4=100-95% 4/3=90% 385% 3/2=80%
2 =75% 2/1 =70% 1 =65% NS=0%
You need a 70 to Pass!
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