LibGuides: Writing Tutorials: Rubric for Assessment of Writing

Rubric - for Writing Assessment

Criteria	(Suggested for 100 point scale) Points	Description
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.