Lit Review Project Grading Rubric

Lit Review Project Grading Rubric Excellent Good Adequate Poor Unacceptable Excels in responding to the A solid paper, responding Adequate, but weaker and Does not have a clear Does not respond to the Critical assignment. Central idea/thesis appropriately to the less effective paper, central idea or does not assignment, lacks a thesis Analysis is clearly communicated, assignment. Clearly states possibly responding less respond appropriately to the or central idea, and and worth developing; limited and supports a thesis/central well to assignment. Presents assignment. Thesis may be neglects to use refereed Synthesis enough to be manageable. idea, but may have minor central idea in general too vague or obvious to be resource. Understands and critically lapses in development. terms. Shows basic developed effectively. evaluates the source, pointing Shows careful reading of comprehension of source, Misunderstood resource. 6 points out why a study is inadequate source, but may not evaluate with some lapses in or strong. them critically. understanding. Uses a logical structure Shows a logical progression May list ideas or arrange May have random No appreciable appropriate to the type of of ideas and uses fairly clear them randomly rather than organization, lacking organization; lacks Organization paper. Clear transitional transitional devices. Each using any evident logical internal paragraph transitions and coherence. sentences often develop one paragraph clearly relates to structure. Paragraphs have coherence and using few or 6 points idea from the previous one or paper’s central idea. topic sentences but may be inappropriate transitions. identify their logical relations. overly general, and It guides the reader through arrangement of sentences the chain of reasoning or within paragraphs may lack progression of ideas. coherence. Incorporates concepts learned Begins to offer reasons to Often uses generalizations Depends on clichés or Uses irrelevant details or Application in class where appropriate. support the thesis/central to support the thesis/central overgeneralizations for lacks supporting evidence of Uses evidence from article and theme. Begins to interpret theme. Often depends on support, or offers little entirely. Does not tie to Concepts class appropriately and the evidence and explain personal experience or evidence of any kind. May class material at all. effectively, providing connections between unsupported opinions. Ties be personal narrative rather sufficient evidence and evidence and main ideas. paper loosely to what has than essay, or summary 6 points explanation to convince. Ties paper somewhat to been learned in class. rather than analysis. Little what has been learned in effort to tie subject to class class. material. Sentence style fits paper’s (or Sentences generally clear, Sentence structures Contains several awkward Contains many awkward Style presentation) audience and well-structured, and generally correct, but or ungrammatical sentences; sentences; misuses words, and purpose. Sentences are varied, focused, though some may sentences may be wordy, sentence structure is simple employs inappropriate Mechanics yet clearly structured and be awkward and ineffective. unfocused, repetitive or or monotonous. Contains language. Contains so carefully focused. Almost May contain a few errors confusing. Usually contains either many mechanical many mechanical errors entirely free of spelling, (spelling, punctuation, several mechanical errors, errors or a few important that it is impossible for 6 points punctuation, and grammatical grammar), but does not which may temporarily errors that block the reader’s the reader to follow the errors. impede understanding. confuse the reader, but does understanding and ability to thinking from sentence to not impede the overall see connection between sentence. understanding. thoughts. Paper is a minimum of 2 pages The requirements are mostly Basic requirements are met Basic requirements are not Requirements are not met Requirements long, sites a minimum of 1 met (length, resource); some somewhat (resource not met. Paper length not – Paper is shorter than 2 appropriate resource, is APA APA format elements are quite adequate). APA accurate, lacking sufficient pages, does not include an 6 points formatted, and submitted on missing, but they don’t formatting needs work – resources, APA formatting appropriate resource, is time. detract from the paper. errors detract from is lacking, and/or paper is not APA formatted, readability. late. and/or is turned in late.