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Exigencia Inglés VIII Writing Rubric: Argumentative Essay _

Criteria and 5 4 3 2 1
Standards

Content Excellent Good argumentative Adequate Poor argumentative Very poor

argumentative essay essay written from an argumentative essay essay that may not argumentative essay
written from an academic written from an be written from an that may not be
academic perspective. academic perspective. academic written from an
perspective. Corresponds to the Corresponds to the perspective. academic
Corresponds to the essay topic. Opinion essay topic. Opinion is Corresponds to the perspective. It may
essay topic. Opinion is well-developed and adequately developed essay topic. Opinion not completely
is very well- well-supported. and supported. may not be fully correspond to the
developed and well- Acknowledges and Acknowledges and developed or essay topic. Opinion
x2 supported. refutes refutes adequately may not be fully
Acknowledges and counterarguments. counterarguments. supported. developed or
refutes Acknowledges but adequately
x2 counterarguments. may not adequately
refute
supported. May
neither acknowledge
counterarguments. nor adequately
refute
counterarguments.

*Integration of Excellent integration Good integration of Adequate integration of Integration of Integration of

of at least three at least three direct at least three direct or academic sources academic sources
Academic Sources direct or indirect or indirect quotes, indirect quotes, which may be poor and/or may be very poor
quotes, which are which are from are from appropriate limited. May not and/or very limited.
from appropriate appropriate academic academic sources, or have three direct or May not have three
academic sources, or sources, or from the from the coursepack. indirect quotes, direct or indirect
from the coursepack. Few or Few or no punctuation which are from quotes, which are
coursepack. Very no punctuation errors errors with in-text appropriate from appropriate
few or no with in-text citations. citations. academic sources, or academic sources, or
punctuation errors from the from the
with in-text coursepack. Some coursepack. Some
citations. sources may be sources may be
There may be one or There may be a few inappropriate. In- inappropriate. In-
two problems with problems with text citations may text citations may
reference list. reference list. have many have many
Sources are punctuation errors. punctuation errors.
referenced correctly.

There may be some There may be

problems with several problems
reference list. with reference list.
 Poor introduction Very poor
with a thesis introduction that
Organization: Excellent Good introduction Adequate introduction statement. Body may not have a
Introduction, Body, introduction with a with a thesis with a thesis statement. paragraphs have thesis statement.
and Conclusion thesis statement. statement. Body Body paragraphs have topic sentences and Body paragraphs
Body paragraphs paragraphs have adequate topic concluding may not have topic
have excellent topic good topic sentences sentences and sentences. May lack sentences or
sentences and and concluding concluding sentences. cohesion between concluding
concluding sentences. Cohesion Some cohesion main and supporting sentences. Lacks
sentences. between all main and between main and ideas. Poor cohesion between
Sophisticated supporting ideas. supporting ideas. conclusion that may main and supporting
cohesion to link Good conclusion that Adequate conclusion not restate thesis. ideas. Very poor
main and supporting restates thesis. that restates thesis. conclusion that may
ideas. Excellent not restate thesis.
conclusion that
restates thesis.

Accurate use and Mostly accurate use Occasionally inaccurate Frequently Many vocabulary
excellent range of and good range of use and adequate range inaccurate use of errors and/or very
Vocabulary vocabulary. vocabulary. of vocabulary. vocabulary and/or limited range and/or
limited range and/or inappropriate
inappropriate vocabulary.
vocabulary.

Grammar Very few Few grammatical Occasional grammatical Frequent Many general
grammatical errors. errors. These errors errors. These errors do grammatical errors. grammatical errors.
These errors do not do not interfere with not interfere with These errors These errors often
interfere with communication. communication. interfere slightly interfere with
communication. Grammar is Grammar is appropriate with communication.
Grammar is appropriate for the for the level. communication. Grammar is severely
appropriate for the level. Grammar is inappropriate for the
level. inappropriate for the level.
level.

**Sentence Variety Excellent use of all Good use of all Adequate use of most Limited use of Very limited use of
sentence types sentence types of the sentence types sentence types sentence types
covered in class with covered in class with covered in class with covered in class with covered in class
no structural or minimal structural or few structural or some structural or and/or there are
punctuation errors. punctuation errors. punctuation errors. punctuation errors. many errors. Very
Excellent sentence Good sentence Adequate sentence Limited sentence limited sentence
variety. variety. variety. variety. variety.
Mechanics Deduction (-0.5): Spelling or capitalization or spacing/formatting or ***general punctuation errors (apostrophes, commas in lists, etc.)
are numerous and inappropriate for the level.

*In-text citation punctuation is assessed in Integration of Academic Sources.

**Sentence punctuation is assessed in Sentence Variety.

***General punctuation is assessed through the Mechanics Deduction.