| Your Ideas |
10 |
Your essay includes your own thoughts, ideas and/or experience while not relying on direct address or other conversational techniques suited for sermons and or speeches. |
| Others' Ideas |
10 |
Your essay presents a larger context of ideas for your topic. You employ the ideas from your research through summary and paraphrase, while not relying entirely on direct quotations. No more than 15% of your paper is direct quotation. |
| Thesis Statement |
10 |
A clear thesis statement that contains a “how and/or why element, remains present throughout the essay, directing its content. |
| Organization |
16 |
Well organized and unified, contains clear evidence of logic and promotes clarity by employing the use of transitions between ideas. |
| Introduction |
10 |
Introduces the topic to be discussed, immediately engages reader’s interest, and leads the reader to the paper’s thesis. |
| Conclusion |
10 |
Restates the paper’s thesis and ties together the paper’s claims. The conclusion does not present new evidence but rather summarizes afresh the ideas presented in the body of the essay. |
| Mechanics & Style |
14 |
Employs a formal, academic tone, uses good syntax, has no spelling/grammatical errors, has effective word choice and varying sentence structure. |
| Citations & Bibliography |
10 |
Parenthetical citations OR footnotes are used throughout the body of the essay and a Reference List OR Bibliography list is available at the end of the essay. Formatting follows the conventions found in the EBC Style Guide that correlates with Chicago Manual of Style. |
| Word Count |
10 |
Minimum word count: 1200 [No more than 15% of the word count, 180 words, can be direct quotation. |
