Teacher Name: Mr.

Denogean
Student Name:

CATEGORY

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Organization

Information on your
current issue in your
community is very
organized with wellconstructed
paragraphs and
subheadings in MLA
format

Information on your
current issue in your
community is
organized with wellconstructed
paragraphs and is
missing the
subheadings or has
subtle grammatical
errors or is has
subtle MLA errors

Information on your
current issue in your
community is
unorganized, but
paragraphs are not
well-constructed and
has numerous MLA
errors such as
missing the title
page, citing your
sources properly and
is headed wrong

The information
appears to be
disorganized. Does
not follow MLA at all
and has deviated
towards something
else.

Sources

All sources
(information and
graphics) are
accurately
documented in MLA
format. Must have a
minimum of two
sources and 2
quotes from each
and must be cited in
proper MLA format.

All sources are

accurately
documented, but a
few are not in MLA
format. Also is
missing 1 quote from
their source or isn\'t
properly cited

All sources are

accurately
documented, but
many are not in MLA
format or has
neglected to mention

Are not documented

properly at all or
have been
completely neglected
from the paper.

Paragraph
Construction

All paragraphs
include introductory
sentence,
explanations or
details, and
concluding sentence.

Most paragraphs
include introductory
sentence,
explanations or
details, and
concluding sentence.

Paragraphs included
related information
but were typically not
constructed well.

Paragraphing
structure was not
clear and sentences
were not typically
related within the
paragraphs.

Mechanics

No grammatical,
spelling or
punctuation errors.

Almost no
A few grammatical
grammatical, spelling spelling, or
or punctuation errors punctuation errors.

Many grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation errors.