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M-Step 3-5 Opinion

 

MY Access!  Persuasive

Organization and Purpose

 

The response has a clear and effective organizational structure , creating a sense of unity and completeness. The organization is fully sustained between and within paragraphs. The response is consistently and purposefully focused :

  • opinion is introduced , clearly communicated, and the focus is strongly maintained for the purpose and audience
  • consistent use of a variety of transitional strategies to clarify the relationships between and among ideas
  • effective introduction and conclusion
  • logical progression of ideas from beginning to end; strong connections between and among ideas with some syntactic variety between and among ideas

 

 

 

 

 

Evidence and Elaboration

The response provides thorough elaboration of the support/evidence for the thesis/controlling idea

that includes the effective use of source material . The response clearly and effectively develops ideas,

using precise language:

  • comprehensive evidence (facts and details) from the source material is integrated, relevant, and specific
  • clear citations or attribution to source material
  • effective use of a variety of elaborative techniques*
  • vocabulary is clearly appropriate for the audience and purpose
  • effective, appropriate style enhances content

 

Conventions

The response demonstrates an adequate command of conventions:

     • adequate use of correct sentence formation, punctuation, capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling

Focus and Purpose/Organization

 

The extent to which the response establishes and maintains an opinion/position 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 opinion to argue the issue presented in the task.

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

  • Very effectively demonstrates a cohesive and unified structure , paragraphing, and transitional strategies to support the logical progression of ideas presented in the argument.
  • Contains an engaging introduction and a strong conclusion.
  • Uses effective and skillful paragraphing and transitional strategies throughout.

 

Content Development/Elaboration/Language

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.

•        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 .

 

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.