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FSA Argumentation Text-based
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MY Access! Argument/Persuasive
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Purpose, Focus, and Organization The response is fully sustained and consistently focused within purpose, audience, and task ; and it has clear claim and effective organizational structure creating coherence and completeness. The response includes the following: • Strongly maintained claim with little or no loosely related material • Clearly addresses alternate or opposing claim • Skillful use of a variety of transitional strategies t o clarify the relationships between and among ideas • Logical progression of ideas from beginning to end with a satisfying introduction and conclusion • Appropriate style and tone established and maintained
Note: “Clearly addresses alternate or opposing claim” Addressed in Content and Development in My Access! |
Focus and Purpose The extent to which the response establishes and maintains an opinion/position/claim and a clear understanding of purpose and audience and completes all parts of the task. • Demonstrates a thorough and insightful understanding of the task, purpose and audience. • Establishes and maintains a precise claim to argue the issue presented in the task. • Completes all parts of the task and may go beyond the limits of the task. Organization The extent to which the response demonstrates a cohesive and unified structure, paragraphing, and transitional strategies to support the logical progression of ideas presented in the argument. • Very effectively demonstrates a cohesive and unified structure that supports the argument with an engaging introduction and a strong conclusion. • Uses effective and skillful paragraphing and transitional strategies throughout.
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Evidence and Elaboration The response provides thorough, convincing, and credible support, citing evidence for the writer’s claim that includes the effective use of sources, facts, and details . The response includes most of the following:
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Content Development/Elaboration The extent to which the response provides credible support for the claim(s) and argument(s) using valid reasoning and relevant text-based evidence* (i.e., facts, data/statistics, authoritative quotes, rhetorical questioning, anecdotes). • Very effectively develops arguments with logical reasoning and effectively integrates relevant, text-based evidence to support the writers claim • Uses a variety of elaborative techniques. • Convincingly addresses opposing claims or counterarguments. Language, Use, Voice, and Style The extent to which the response establishes and consistently maintains a style and tone appropriate to the audience, demonstrates effective control of language, and uses domain-specific word choice and varied sentence structure. • Demonstrates a very effectively style, precise control of language , domain-specific word choice , and a well- defined sense of audience . • Uses well-structured and varied sentences .
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Conventions of Standard English The response demonstrates an adequate command of basic conventions. The response may include the following: · Some minor errors in usage but no patterns of errors · Adequate use of punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling.
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Mechanics and Conventions The extent to which the response demonstrates control of mechanics and conventions, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling. • Contains few or no errors in grammar, mechanics, punctuation and spelling.
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