Paper includes

YES

NO

In-text citations

References Page (APA)

Focus and Organization: __%

Superior/ Advanced

(85-100%)

Very Good

(61-84%)

Fair

(41-60%)

Below Expectations

(20-40%)

INC

· Thesis Statement/Main Message is a clear, focused, specific, and creative arguable claim.

· Assignment is logically organized and unified; the logical connection between content and Thesis Statement/Main Message is clear.

· Specified organizational components consistently met

· Thesis Statement/Main Message is a clear, focused, and specific arguable claim.

· Assignment is mostly logically organized and unified; the logical connection between content and Thesis Statement/Main Message is mostly clear.

· Specified organizational components mostly met.

· Thesis Statement/Main Message is somewhat clear, focused, and specific; Thesis Statement/Main Message is not an arguable claim or lacks clear direction.

· Assignment is somewhat logically organized and unified; the logical connection between content and Thesis Statement/Main Message is somewhat clear.

· Specified organizational components somewhat met

· Thesis Statement/Main Message is not clear, focused, specific, or arguable.

· Assignment is not logically organized or unified; the logical connection between content and Thesis Statement/Main Message is unclear.

· Specified organizational components are not met

Incomplete

10————-9.3———-8.5

8.4————-7.3———-6.1

6.0————-5.0———-4.1

4.0————-3.0———-2.0

Development and Analysis: __%

· Students’ claims are consistently supported with appropriate, relevant, logical, convincing, and creative evidence.

· Evidence is critically and logically explained through analysis that is varied and fully detailed.

· Specified development and analysis components consistently met

· Students’ claims are mostly supported with appropriate, relevant, logical, and convincing evidence.

· Most evidence is logically explained through analysis that is varied and detailed.

· Specified development and analysis components mostly met

· Students’ claims are supported with some appropriate, relevant, and logical evidence.

· Evidence is somewhat explained, but how the selected evidence proves the thesis may be unclear.

· Specified development and analysis components somewhat met

· Students’ claims are supported with very little evidence.

· Evidence is insufficiently and/or illogically explained.

· Specified development and analysis components are not met

8.4————7.3———6.1

6.0————5.0———4.1

Style: __%

· Language is clear, accurate, concise, and creative.

· Language and tone are audience-appropriate.

· Quotations and paraphrases from sources are effectively and seamlessly integrated.

· Sentences are varied and engaging.

· Specified style components consistently met

· Language is mostly clear, accurate, and concise.

· Language and tone are mostly audience-appropriate.

· Quotations and paraphrases are mostly effectively integrated.

· Sentences are mostly varied and engaging.

· Specified style components mostly met

· Language is somewhat clear, accurate, and concise.

· Language and tone are somewhat audience-appropriate.

· Some effective integration of quotations and paraphrases.

· Sentences are somewhat varied and engaging.

· Specified style components somewhat met

· Language is mostly unclear, inaccurate, and not concise.

· Language and tone are not audience-appropriate.

· Few effectively integrated quotations and paraphrases.

· Sentences are not varied or engaging.

· Specified style components are not met

Grammar and Mechanics: __%

NR/

INC

· Free of grammar and spelling errors.

· Free of mechanical errors.

· Specified grammar and mechanics components consistently met

· Very few grammar and spelling errors.

· Very few mechanical errors (fragments, comma splices, run-ons, misuse of punctuation).

· Specified grammar and mechanics components mostly met

· Some grammar and spelling errors.

· Some mechanical errors (fragments, comma splices, run-ons, misuse of punctuation).

· Specified grammar and mechanics components somewhat met

· Many grammar and spelling errors.

· Many mechanical errors (fragments, comma splices, run-ons, misuse of punctuation).

· Specified grammar and mechanics components not met

APA Referencing: __%

· In-text citations for quotations and paraphrases are consistently correct.

· APA references are completely correct.

· Format requirements are consistently correct.

· In-text citations for quotations and paraphrases are mostly correct.

· APA references are mostly correct.

· Format requirements are mostly correct.

· In-text citations for quotations and paraphrases are somewhat correct.

· APA references are somewhat correct.

· Format requirements are somewhat correct.

· In-text citations for quotations are mostly incorrect.

· APA references are mostly incorrect.

· Format requirements are mostly incorrect.

/50

/20

1. Review previous lectures on rhetoric and essay structure, as summarized below:

Informative Rhetorics

Persuasive Rhetorics

Description

1. Argumentation

Narration

2. Persuasion

Exposition (i.e., cause and effect, classification, comparison/contrast, process, analogy, definition)

2. For this assignment, you will be asked to research and provide documentation to an essay generated from a topic from the reading, Txting is Killing Language, JK!!!. Be sure to include supporting detail (i.e. direct quotations, summaries, and paraphrases) from documented sources. Your essay should include the following characteristics:

a. Length = 1,250 words

b. Citation style = APA

c. Required number of research sources minimum = 5 . Only one of your research sources can be from the Internet. All others must come from LRC databases, newspapers, magazines, books, or primary-source interviews or surveys. Be sure to include proper documentation, for both in-text citations and your Reference List page.