English homework

Advanced (100%)

Proficient (85%)

Acceptable (75%)

Needs Improvement (50%)

Non-Performance (0%)

Source Summary

Summarize the main argument of a research source. (30%)

Provides a complete and accurate summary of the article’s contextual information, main purpose, and argument mostly in your own words, with at least two cited, key direct quotations.

Provides an accurate summary of the article’s contextual information, main purpose, and argument mostly in your own words, with at least two cited, key direct quotations.

Provides an accurate summary of article and contextual information, but may be missing one cited, key quotation.

Provides an incomplete summary of the article’s contextual information, main purpose, and argument and/or is missing both cited, key quotations.

Does not provide a complete and accurate summary of the article’s main purpose and argument in your own words, with at least two cited, key direct quotations.

Source Response

Articulate a response to the argument presented in a research source. (30%)

Constructs a thoughtful and academically appropriate response to the source, including accurately identified, quoted, and cited samples from the source that relate to the response.

Constructs an academically appropriate response to the source, including accurately identified, quoted, and cited samples from the source that relate to the response.

Constructs an academically appropriate response to the source, but may be missing one quoted and cited sample. Samples are accurately identified and cited.

Constructs an appropriate response to the source, but does not include quoted and/or accurately cited samples that relate to the response.

Does not construct an academically appropriate response to the source, does not include quoted or cited samples from the source that relate to the response, and/or samples are inaccurately identified and cited.

Organization

Exhibit competent organizational writing techniques. (10%)

Includes all of the required components of a summary and response essay, including an introduction with an engaging summary of the source’s argument, and body paragraphs containing a detailed and thoughtful response to the argument.

Includes all of the required components of a summary and response essay, including an introduction with a summary of the source’s argument, and body paragraphs containing a response to the argument.

Includes nearly all of the required components of summary and response essay; however, one component is missing.

Includes most of the required components of a summary and response essay, 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 essay.

Lacks several or all of the components of a summary and response essay; 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 essay.

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 written 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

Answer reflection questions thoroughly and thoughtfully. (10%)

Demonstrates thoughtful reflection; consistently includes specific and concrete examples that provide thoughtful insight in all responses, 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.