Essay Rubric

Evaluating Student Communication Skills

Name:
Date:
Course Title: Intermediate & Advanced Writing
Program SLOs: Communication Skills
Criteria
Beginning
Developing
Accomplishe
0-1 point
2 points
d
3 points
Thesis
Student has
Student has
Students
Statement
no thesis
weak thesis
thesis
statement.
statement.
statement is
adequate.
Content
None of the
Reader is not Reader is
supporting
adequately
somewhat
points is on
informed
informed
topic.
because
with
writer does
adequate
not use
information
enough
from writers
support to
explanation
make his/her of three
point.
facts,
examples,
paraphrases,
or quotations
to support
thesis.

Organization
supporting
details

Spelling &
Grammar

Presentation

20_______

Student has
no plan of
organization.
No
beginning,
middle or
end is
evident.

Student has
many
spelling and
grammatical
errors.

Student has
some plan of
the
organization.
It is not easy
to find
beginning,
middle, or
end and
there is some
clarity. No
transitions
are evident
between
main
thoughts.
Student has
a few
spelling and
grammatical
errors.

Paper is
illegible and
messy.

Paper is
almost
illegible.

Student has
adequate
plan of essay
structure. It
is easy to
find the
beginning,
middle or
end and
there is some
clarity.
Writer uses
some
transitions to
connect
thoughts.
Student has
only one or
two spelling
or
grammatical
errors.
Paper is
legible and
adequately
neat.

Alpha/Section: Eng 81 & 91

Exemplary
4 points
Students
thesis
statement is
clear.
Reader is
thoroughly
informed
with
thorough
information
from writers
explanations
of three
facts,
examples,
paraphrases,
or quotations
to support
thesis. All
points are
related to the
topic
Student
follows a
logical plan
from
paragraph to
paragraph.
There is a
clear
beginning,
middle and
end. Writer
uses
transitions to
connect the
three key
ideas.
Student has
exemplary
spelling and
grammar.
Paper is
legible and
neat.

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