Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Total
A B C D F
Points
• Excels in responding to • A solid paper, responding • Does not respond well to • Does not respond
• Does not respond to the
assignment. Interesting, appropriately to assignment. assignment. Adequate but weak appropriately to the
Assignment assignment.
• Demonstrates sophistication of • Uses most of the requested and not effective. assignment.
Goals and • Lacks basis information and
thought. information/data. • Presents key information/data in • The paper and the information
Substance may neglect to use sources
• Key information/data is well • Shows good use of sources, but general terms, often plagued used are vague 40
or adequate ones where
used and clearly may not communicate them with platitudes or clichés. • Student may misunderstand
40 necessary.
communicated. clearly. • Shows basic use of sources and/or underuse sources.
lapses in understanding.
0‐23.5
40 35 30 26
• Uses a logical structure • Uses some logical structure • Ideas are arranged randomly • Random organization, lacking • Poor organization;
appropriate to paper's subject appropriate to paper's aim. rather than logically and paragraph/sentence • Lacks transitions and
and purpose. • Some logical links may be sentence arrangement is not coherence coherence.
• Sophisticated transitional faulty, but each paragraph coherent. • Uses few or inappropriate • Lacks all necessary
Organization
sentences (develops one idea clearly relates to paper’s goal. • If used, transitions are not logic‐ transitions. information and data.
& coherence
from the previous one or • Uses some transitional devices. based. • Uses almost no information • May or not be all written in 30
identify their logical relations). • Uses well information and data • Uses little information and data and data. Whatever is used is own words
30
• Uses very well information and and integrates them in the and does not integrate it well in not integrated in the essay.
data and integrates it in the essay rather than lists them. the essay.
essay rather than lists it.
30 25 23 20 0‐17.5
• Often uses generalizations to • Heavy use of clichés or over‐
• Uses good information/data • Uses good information/data
support points. generalizations for support
appropriately and effectively appropriately. • Uses irrelevant details
• Some information/data may not • Offers little evidence/data.
• Provides sufficient evidence • Provides some evidence and • Lacks supporting evidence
be relevant. • May be personal narrative
Support and and explanation to convince, explanation to convince, • May be unduly brief
• Often depends on unsupported rather than essay.
references especially in responding to especially in responding to • Use no appropriate sources
opinion or personal experience • May be too brief 15
specific questions. specific questions. • May not all be written in
• Lapses in logic. • May not all be written in own
15 • Uses six or more refereed • Uses six or more refereed own words
• Uses less than six refereed words
sources. sources.
sources. • Uses one to no refereed
0‐9
sources.
15 13
11.5 10
• Almost free of spelling, • Contain a few errors, which • Contains several mechanical • Usually contains either many • Has so many mechanical
punctuation, and grammatical may annoy the reader but not errors, which may confuse the mechanical errors that block errors that it is impossible
errors. impede understanding. reader but not impede the the reader's understanding to read and follow the
• Follows assignment plan • Follows assignment plan overall understanding. and ability to see connections thinking.
exactly, handling one section at somewhat, using some good • May not follows assignment plan between ideas. • Does not follow
a time, using good transitions transitions devices and has poor or no transitions. • Does not follow assignment assignment plan.
Mechanics
between them. • Adequate use of APSA Style • Poor or no use APSA Style plan. • Poor or no use of APSA
15
• Excellent use of APSA Style • Written in own words • May not be all in own words • Very Poor or no use of APSA • May or not be all written in
15
• Written in own words. • Uses information/sources • May not use all information and • May or not be all written in own words.
• Uses information/sources ethically and legally sources ethically and legally. own words • May have a problem with
ethically and legally. • May have a problem with ethical and legal use of
ethical and legal use of information.
information.
15 13 11.5 10 0‐9
100 = A 86 = B 76 = C 66 = D 0 = 65 100