Text-in-Context Rubric

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Grading Rubric—Sarah Coca
Course: ENGL 102
Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
Superior
Formatting/
Assignment
ouses MLA/APA citation format
with no errors
Content /
Analysis
oprovides a highly effective
rhetorical précis of each
source
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Strong
Competent
Weak
oreflects superior, extensive
research
oreflects extensive research
oreflects adequate research o reflects minimal research
oreflects inadequate research
oprovides an effective
rhetorical précis of each
source
oprovides a useful rhetorical o attempts a useful rhetorical
précis of each source
précis of each source
odoes not provide a mature rhetorical précis
oincludes specific but not
o
ois carefully organized and
necessarily meaningful
ois effectively organized and
includes specific,
details to support the
incorporates specific,
meaningful details to
analysis of each source’s
meaningful details to support
support an insightful
strengths and
an original, insightful analysis
analysis of each source’s
weaknesses for the
of each source’s strengths and
strengths and weaknesses
student’s research;
weaknesses for the student’s
for the student’s research
lapses into summary
research
occasionally
Expression /
Mechanics
osentences are varied and forceful osentences are correct and
varied
odiction is precise and
sophisticated
odiction is clear and idiomatic
owritten in accordance with
standard usage, and is
virtually free of grammar,
punctuation, spelling, and
capitalization errors
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Unacceptable
ouses MLA/APA citation format ouses MLA/APA citation
omajor errors in MLA/APA citation oexcessive errors in citation format
with minimal errors
format with some errors
format
ofails to meet the minimum number or
oincludes six or more sources
oincludes at least six sources omeets minimum number of omeets minimum number of
required variety of sources
exceeding required variety of
and shows required variety
sources and reflects
sources but shows little
type and angle
some variety
variety
ono serious deviations from
standard usage; very few
punctuation, spelling, or
capitalization errors
osentences are generally
correct, but some are
wordy or lack clarity
includes some details to
support the analysis of each
source’s strengths and
weaknesses for the student’s
research but summary
overtakes analysis
osentences are immature or
tediously patterned
odoes not demonstrate analysis of the
source’s strengths and weaknesses for
the student’s research
osentences are incoherent
odiction is nonstandard
odiction is vague or elementary
odiction is generally correct
odemonstrates serious problems with
and idiomatic, but a few odemonstrates difficulty with
fragments, comma splices, or other
examples of
fragments or comma splices,
distracting features in usage,
unsophisticated or
agreement or other distracting
punctuation, spelling, and capitalization
poor/incorrect word
features in usage,
choices are present
punctuation, spelling, or
capitalization
ofew deviations from
standard usage,
punctuation,
capitalization, and
spelling
You’re doing MLA, right? It’s confusing b/c the Somers piece is definitely in APA…and the first one is backwards…
Indent all citation lines after the first line (easier to alphabetize that way)
Double space
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Your annotations are good and, I think, will be useful to you, but your citations are a mess.  Use Rules for Writers to check yourself (or make sure you’ve picked either
MLA or APA consistently in EasyBib (or whatever site you’re using).
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