Maryville University Department of Rehabilitation Counseling Writing Skills Rubric

MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY – DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION COUNSELING – WRITING SKILLS RUBRIC

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STRUCTURE CONTENTS MECHANICS APA STYLE 5 - Clear beginning, - Appropriate length to cover topic - Correct sentence structure - Reference page included and in Excellent development, and conclusion - Clearly and coherently focused (including a - Correct spelling correct format - Appropriate paragraphing good sense of audience) - Correct punctuation - Appropriate use of quotations - Clear and appropriate - Thoughts clearly organized - Correct capitalization - Appropriately cited sources transitions - Logical and clear progression - Correct word choices - Appropriate number of resources - Correct usage of APA - Assertions clearly supported and/or illustrated - Appropriate resources for thesis headings to provide the outline - Writing shows creativity and originality of the paper - Writing shows substance-is publishable 4 - Generally clear beginning, - Appropriate length to cover topic - Generally free of errors in - Reference page included and mostly High development, and conclusion - Clearly and cohesively focused with sufficient sentence structure in correct format - Generally appropriate sense of audience spelling - Quotations generally used correctly paragraphing - Thoughts generally organized punctuation - Sources generally cited correctly - Generally clear and - Assertions generally supported/illustrated capitalization - Appropriate number of resources appropriate transitions - Generally shows originality and substance - Generally correct word choices - Mostly appropriate resources for thesis 3 - Adequate beginning, - Adequate length to cover topic - Relatively few errors in sentence - Adequate reference page Adequate development, and conclusion - Adequately focused (including some sense of structure - Errors in citations - Adequate paragraphing audience) spelling - Adequate but limited number of - Adequate transitions - Thoughts adequately organized and presented punctuation resources - Thought adequately supported/illustrated capitalization - Adequate but limited choice of - Limited substance and creativity word choice resources

2 - Weak beginning, - Not adequate in length to cover topic - Significant errors in sentence - Significant errors in Poor development, and conclusion - Weakly focused (little sense of audience) structure reference page - Weak paragraphing - thoughts not clearly organized spelling/punctuation citations - Weak transitions - Unclear progression capitalization choice of resources - Assertions weakly supported and/or illustrated word choice - Not adequate resources

1 - Serious and persistent errors - Does not cover the topic - Serious and persistent errors in - No reference page and/or numerous Unacceptable in organizational structure, - Not focused (no sense of audience) sentence structure/ format errors paragraphing, and transitions - Unorganized spelling/punctuation/ - Sources not cited or incorrectly cited capitalization/word choice - Few and inappropriate resources

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