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Purpose, Focus, and Organization
The response is fully sustained and consistently focused within the purpose, audience, and task; and it has a clear controlling idea/thesis statement and effective organizational structure creating coherence and completeness. The response includes most of the following:
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A
strongly maintained
controlling idea/thesis statement
with little or no loosely related material.
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Skillful use of a variety of
transitional strategies
to clarify the relationships between and among ideas.
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Logical progression of ideas
from beginning to end with a
satisfying introduction and conclusion.
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Appropriate style and objective tone established and maintained.
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Purpose, Focus, and Organization
The extent to which the response establishes and
maintains a thesis/ controlling idea, demonstrates a clear understanding of purpose and audience, and completes all parts of the task.
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Demonstrates a thorough and insightful
understanding of the task, purpose
, and audience
.
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Establishes and maintains a clearly focused thesis/controlling idea throughout the response.
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Uses effective and
skillful paragraphing and transitional strategies
throughout.
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Very effectively demonstrates a cohesive and unified structure
that supports the argument with an
engaging introduction and a strong conclusion.
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Evidence and Elaboration
The response provides thorough and convincing
support, citing evidence
for controlling or main idea that includes the effective use of sources, facts, and details. The response includes most of the following:
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Smoothly integrated, thorough, and relevant evidence, including precise references to sources
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Effective
use of a variety of elaborative techniques(
including , but not limited to definitions, quotations, and examples
)
demonstrating an understanding of the topic and text
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Clear and effective expression of ideas, using
precise language
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Academic and
domain-specific vocabulary
clearly
appropriate for the audience
and purpose
Conventions
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Some
minor errors in usage
but no patterns of error.
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Adequate use of
punctuation
, capitalization,
sentence formation
, and
spelling.
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Content Development/Elaboration/Language
The extent to which the response develops ideas by integrating specific, relevant
support and/or source-based evidence
(e.g., concrete details, facts, examples, quotes, statistics, and explanations).
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Develops ideas by adeptly
integrating specific details and/or citing credible, source-based evidence to support the thesis/controlling idea.
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Uses a
variety of elaborative techniques
.
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Demonstrates a very effectively style,
precise control of language
,
domain-specific word choice
, and a well-
defined sense of audience
.
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Uses well-structured and varied sentences
.
Mechanics and Conventions
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Contains few or no errors in grammar, mechanics, punctuation and spelling.
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