Composition 2

Advanced (100%)

Proficient (85%)

Acceptable (75%)

Needs Improvement (50%)

Non-Performance (0%)

Summary of Positions

Introduce the two sources and summarize each side of the argument from the sources provided. (20%)

Effectively and correctly introduces both authors/articles and provides a complete, accurate, and concise summary of both positions presented in the articles (including citations) with at least three direct and accurate quotations included.

Correctly introduces both authors/articles and provides an accurate and concise summary of both positions presented in the articles (including citations) with at least three direct and accurate quotations included.

Provides a correct introduction of the authors/articles and a brief overview of positions (including citations), but key details of the positions may be inaccurate or missing and/or 1-2 direct and accurate quotations might be missing.

Correctly introduces both authors/articles but does not provide a complete or mostly accurate summary of positions presented in the articles. A few accurate citations are still included but the direct, accurate quotations might be missing.

Does not correctly introduce both authors/articles and/or provides a totally inaccurate summary of each position presented in the articles (including any citations).

Thesis/Claim

Present a thesis that advocates for a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument covered in the provided sources. (40%)

Provides a thesis in the introduction that clearly and effectively advocates for a concrete, detailed solution to satisfy both sides of the argument provided in the sources, and this stance is robustly developed in the concluding paragraph.

Provides a thesis in the introduction that clearly advocates for a concrete solution to satisfy both sides of the argument provided in the sources, and this stance is developed further in the concluding paragraph.

Provides a thesis; however, it is not located in the introduction OR it is not developed in a way which suggests a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument provided in the sources that is entirely clear or concrete.

Provides a thesis; however, it is not located in the introduction AND/OR it is not developed in a way which suggests a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument provided in the sources that is entirely clear or concrete.

No clear thesis has been presented anywhere in the essay, does not address the argument provided in the sources, OR it is entirely generic, repetitive, and/or vague, lacking in any concrete detail.

Organization

Exhibit competent organization and writing techniques. (10%)

Includes all of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper, including an engaging introduction with source summaries and a claim, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and a conclusion with a concluding statement.

Includes all of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper, including an introduction with source summaries and a claim, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and a conclusion with a concluding statement.

Includes nearly all of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper; however, one component is missing.

Includes most of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper, but is lacking two components. Sequences ideas and paragraphs such that the connections between ideas (within and between paragraphs) are sometimes unclear and the reader may have difficulty following the progression of the argument.

Lacks several or all of the components of a Rogerian argument paper. Sequences ideas and paragraphs such that the connections between ideas (within and between paragraphs) are often unclear and the reader has difficulty following the progression of the argument.

Style

Establish a consistent, informative tone and make thoughtful stylistic choices. (10%)

Demonstrates thoughtful and effective word choices, avoids redundancy and imprecise language, and uses a wide variety of sentence structures.

Demonstrates effective word choices, primarily avoids redundancy and imprecise language, and uses a variety of sentence structures.

Demonstrates generally effective style choices, but may include occasional redundancies, imprecise language, poor word choice, and/or repetitive sentence structures.

Frequently includes poor word choices, redundancies, imprecise language, and/or repetitive sentence structures.

Consistently demonstrates poor word choices, redundancies, imprecise language, and/or repetitive sentence structures.

Conventions

Follow conventions for standard English. (10%)

There are only a few, if any, negligible errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.

There are occasional minor errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.

There are some significant errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.

There are frequent significant errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.

There are consistent significant errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.

Reflection

Reflect on progression and development throughout the course. (10%)

Demonstrates thoughtful reflection; consistently includes specific and concrete examples that provide thoughtful insight, following or exceeding response length guidelines.

Demonstrates thoughtful reflection; includes multiple specific and concrete examples that provide thoughtful insight, following response length guidelines.

Primarily demonstrates thoughtful reflection, but some responses are lacking in detail or insight; primarily follows response length guidelines.

Shows limited reflection; the majority of responses are lacking in detail or insight, with some questions left unanswered or falling short of response length guidelines.

No reflection responses are present.