Keystone Analysis Rubric

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Thesis/Focus

- Establishes and sustains a precise controlling idea/thesis

- Displays a clear understanding of task, purpose, and audience

Focus and Purpose

- Demonstrates a thorough and insightful understanding of the task, purpose, and audience.

- Establishes and maintains a clearly focused thesis/controlling idea throughout the response.

- Completes all parts of the task and may go beyond the limits of the task.

Content

- Provides relevant content and specific and effective supporting details that demonstrate a clear understanding of purpose

- Uses sophisticated transitional words, phrases, and clauses to link ideas and create cohesion

Content and Development

- Develops ideas by adeptly integrating specific details and/or citing credible, source-based evidence 1 to support the thesis/controlling idea.

- Uses a variety of elaborative techniques.

Organization

- Chooses sophisticated organizational strategies appropriate for task, purpose, and audience  

- Includes a clear and well-defined introduction, body, and conclusion

Organization

- Demonstrates a cohesive and unified structure that clarifies relationships among ideas and concepts.

- Contains an engaging introduction and an insightful conclusion.

- Uses effective and skillful paragraphing and transitional strategies throughout.

Style

- Uses consistently precise language and a wide variety of sentence structures  

- Chooses an effective style and tone and maintains a consistent point of view

Language, Use and Style

- Demonstrates a very effective style and tone , precise control of language , domain-specific word choice, and an exceptional awareness of audience.

- Uses well-structured and varied sentences .