Content
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- Fully responds to all criteria of the assignment
- Clearly identifies and fully develops all ideas/themes
- Provides logical, valid and specific details and support
- Effectively uses all relevant information, including outside sources
- Draws clear and appropriate conclusions
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- Sufficiently responds to most criteria of the assignment
- Identifies and develops main ideas/themes, but some may lack clarity or depth
- Generally provides logical and valid details and support
- Effectively uses most relevant information, including outside sources
- For the most part, draws clear and appropriate conclusions
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- Does not respond or incompletely responds to some criteria of the assignment
- Does not identify or develop some main ideas/themes
- Provides support but may not be logical or valid; some details may be missing
- Frequently omits relevant information; outside sources may be inappropriate or missing
- Draws mostly unclear or inappropriate conclusions
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- Does not respond to most criteria of the assignment
- Does not identify or develop most ideas/themes
- Provides few details and little support or support that is illogical or invalid
- Omits relevant information; outside sources inappropriate or missing
- Draws unclear/inappropriate conclusions or omits conclusions entirely
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Organization
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- Clearly and consistently organizes ideas
- Maintains consistent focus and sense of purpose
- Effectively structures and orders paragraphs
- Links ideas with smooth and effective transitions
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- Consistently organizes ideas, but structure may be formulaic or unsophisticated
- Generally maintains focus
- For the most part, effectively structures and orders paragraphs
- For the most part, effectively links ideas, but transitions may be unclear or ineffective
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- Frequently does not organizes ideas; structure is formulaic or unsophisticated
- Sometimes lacks focus or sense of purpose
- Often does not structure or order paragraphs
- Links some ideas, but transitions are missing or unclear
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- Does not organize ideas
- Conveys little or no focus or sense of purpose
- For the most part, does not structure or order paragraphs
- Does not link ideas
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Style
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- Shows clear awareness of purpose and audience
- Uses sophisticated and varied sentence structure
- Uses vocabulary and style that are appropriate to the audience
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- For the most part, shows awareness of purpose and audience
- Uses effective and varied sentence structure
- Uses vocabulary and style that are mostly appropriate to the audience; some words may be used incorrectly
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- Is inconsistent in showing awareness of purpose and audience
- Uses little variety in sentence structure; some syntax errors may be present
- Uses vocabulary or style that are frequently inappropriate to the audience; words are often used incorrectly
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- Shows little awareness of purpose and audience
- Uses no variety in sentence structure; syntax errors frequently present
- Uses vocabulary or style that are inappropriate to the audience; words are consistently used incorrectly
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Mechanics
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- Makes virtually no grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors
- Uses correct citation format to document references and sources
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- Makes few grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors; these are not distracting to the reader
- Identifies and documents most sources appropriately
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- Makes occasional grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors; these may be distracting to the reader
- Sometimes uses correct citation format to document references and sources
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- Makes frequent grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors; these are distracting to the reader
- Uses incorrect or no citation format to document references and sources
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