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💯 100-point Essay Rubric with SLO2
💯 100-point Essay Rubric with SLO2
Criteria Ratings Pts
A: Thesis statement
✔️Thesis statement is strong, clear, specific, and provides focus for the essay. ✔️Thesis statement is not a list. ✔️Thesis statement is not an announcement. ✔️Thesis statement is indicated by red font or underline.
threshold: pts
20 to >1.0 pts
1 to >0 pts
pts
20 pts
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B: Research
✔️Sources are recent within the past 6 months, college-level, appropriate and relevant. ✔️Information included from sources features events or situations that occurred within the previous 6 months. ✔️Source information is smoothly integrated into the essay with proper MLA in-text citation format including correct parenthetical citation information.
threshold: pts
20 to >0.01 pts
0.01 to >0 pts
pts
20 pts
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C: Format
✔️Font is Arial size 12. ✔️Correct identifying information is included on the first page of the essay. ✔️Title is properly formatted in plain text: ✔️Not bold. ✔️Not underlined. ✔️Not a different sized font. ✔️Not italicized. ✔️Page numbers have been inserted correctly. ✔️Proper header is present on each page. ✔️Paper is evenly double-spaced throughout. ✔️First line of each paragraph is indented. ✔️Margins are 1" all around. ✔️Works Cited is cross-referenced with in-text citations so that every citation in the essay begins with a name or word that is the first word in the Works Cited list, and every entry in the Works Cited is referenced in essay. ✔️Works Cited is properly formatted. ✔️Essay is at least three full pages long (not counting quoted material) and no longer than five full pages (not counting Works Cited page).
threshold: pts
20 to >1.0 pts
1 to >0 pts
pts
20 pts
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D: Organization, Voice, and Audience.
✔️Essay is organized into developed paragraphs that support the thesis. ✔️Topic of essay is covered thoroughly. ✔️Transitions are elegant. ✔️Essay features an appropriate ratio of original ideas, examples, quotes, paraphrases and summaries. ✔️Writer's voice is correct for the task at hand, 3rd person, authoritative. ✔️Writer maintains formal voice. ✔️Writer's awareness of audience limits over-explanation and reliance on common knowledge.
threshold: pts
15 to >1.0 pts
1 to >0 pts
pts
15 pts
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E: Content
✔️Essay is on-topic and topic is covered thoroughly. ✔️Each aspect of the essay prompt is addressed. ✔️Examples are specific and vivid. ✔️Essay does not include history or background and focuses instead on events occurring within the previous 6 months. ✔️Clear evidence that the essay has been edited and proofread and is not a rough draft. I is consistently capitalized. ✔️Words and phrases to avoid are not present. ✔️Punctuation is properly executed.[☑️When required: Assigned course texts are skillfully integrated into the essay as support for analysis.]
threshold: pts
10 to >1.0 pts
1 to >0 pts
pts
10 pts
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F: Evidence of familiarity with course modules and submission checklist
✔️Student "shows" argument points through examples and source information rather than just "telling" in an unsubstantiated narrative. ✔️There is a meaningful title. ✔️Information is written in declarative statements with no questions. ✔️Words and phrases to be avoided have been avoided. ✔️No use of you, your, our, us, I, we. ✔️Paper is free of common grammar and punctuation errors.
threshold: pts
10 to >1.0 pts
1 to >0 pts
pts
10 pts
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome SLO #2 WLAC EN-101
[Demonstrated ability to] cite sources both in-text and on a works cited page following MLA guidelines.
threshold: 3.0 pts
5 pts
Exceeds Expectations
3 pts
Meets Expectations
0 pts
Does Not Meet Expectations
pts
5 pts
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Total Points: 100 out of 100