Project 1: Scaffolding process + Assignment 25%
Project 2: Scaffolding process + Essay 30%
Project 3: Scaffolding process + Final Essay: 35%
Class Participation and Attendance: 10%
| Grade | Focus | Main Idea | Organization | Content | Research and/or close reading | Style | Grammar and Mechanics |
| A+,A,A- | Purpose is clear | Clearly presents a main idea and supports it throughout the paper | Well-planned and well-organized, with title, introduction, paragraph transitions and conclusion | Well-presented and argued; ideas are detailed, developed and supported with evidence and details, mostly specific | Sources or quotations are exceptionally well integrated and they support claims argued in the paper very effectively | Sentences are clear with excellent use of punctuation; style suited to audience and purpose; specific examples and descriptions | Grammar and mechanics: Excellent grammar, spelling, syntax and punctuation |
| B+,B,B- | Shows awareness of purpose | There is a main idea supported throughout most of the paper | Good overall organization, includes the main organizational tools; most paragraphs have clear ideas, and have clear ideas, and supported with some examples and have transitions | Well-presented and argued; ideas are detailed, developed and supported with evidence and details, mostly specific | Sources are well integrated and support the paper’s claims. There may be occasional errors | Sentences are clear but a few may be awkward and unclear. Some use of specific examples and detailed descriptions | A few errors in grammar, spelling, syntax and punctuation, but not many |
| C+,C,C- | Shows limited awareness of purpose | Vague sense of a main idea, weakly supported throughout the paper | There is a sense of organization, although some of the organizational tools are used weakly or missing. Some paragraphs have clear ideas, support from examples may be missing and transitions are weak | Content is sound and solid; ideas are present but not particularly developed or supported; some evidence, but usually of a generalized nature | Sources support some claims made in the paper, but might not be integrated well within the paper’s argument or might be just summaries | Sentences are generally clear but may have awkward structure or unclear content. Little use of specific examples and details; mostly generalized examples and little description | Shows a pattern of errors in spelling, grammar, syntax and/or punctuation. Could also be a sign of lack of proofreading |
| D+,D,D- | No awareness | No main idea | No sense of organization; paragraphs lack clear ideas | Content is not sound and merely summarizing the texts | The paper does not use adequate research or if it does, the sources are not integrated well | Sentences aren’t clear; no use of examples | Continuous errors |
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