Grading Rubric for Essay 2
Note: I borrowed this from the illustrious, exhausted, over-worked, and gracious Katie Sweeney.
ESSAY #2: GRADING RUBRIC
A / B / C / D / FRhetorical Situations, Context / The essay clearly articulates the rhetorical situations of Roberts-Miller and Spencer’s texts, explains how they relate to one another, and establishes the contexts they are responding to. / The essay identifies the rhetorical situations of Roberts-Miller and Spencer’s texts and identifies the contexts they are responding to, but it makes little reference to how these texts relate to one another. / The essay identifies the rhetorical situations of Roberts-Miller and Spencer’s texts, but it contains little explanation of how these texts relate to one another. Additionally, there is little reference to the contexts. / The essay briefly identifies the rhetorical situations of Roberts-Miller and Spencer’s texts, but it does not identify how these texts relate to one another or the contexts they respond to. / The essay does not clearly articulate the rhetorical situations, relationship between, or contexts of Roberts-Miller and Spencer’s texts.
Thesis Statement / The introduction paragraph contains a discernible thesis statement that clearly articulates which demagogic strategies are being evaluated in Spencer’s text and explains what these strategies are being used to do. / The introduction paragraph contains a discernible thesis statement that clearly articulates which demagogic strategies are being evaluated in Spencer’s text, but it does not identify what these strategies are doing. / The introduction paragraph contains a discernible thesis statement, but it describes Spencer’s argument without referencing demagogic strategies. / The paper contains a thesis statement, but it is located in another paragraph besides the introduction. The thesis does not explain which demagogic strategies are being evaluated or what they are doing. / The paper does not contain a thesis statement.
Demagogic Strategies, Rhetorical Strategy / The essay defines and identifies at least two demagogic strategies that Spencer uses in his text, as well as one rhetorical strategy that is used in the article. The paper sufficiently provides examples of where these demagogic strategies occur in Spencer’s article and evaluates their persuasiveness.
/ The essay defines and identifies two demagogic strategies that Spencer uses in his text, as well as one rhetorical strategy that is used in the article. The paper sufficiently provides examples of where these demagogic strategies occur, but does not explore their persuasiveness. / The essay defines and identifies one demagogic strategy that Spencer uses in his text, as well as one rhetorical strategy that is used in the article. The paper sufficiently provides examples of where these demagogic strategies occur, but does not explore their persuasiveness. / The essay defines and identifies one demagogic strategy that Spencer uses in his text, as well as one rhetorical strategy that is used in the article. The paper does not sufficiently provide examples of where these demagogic strategies occur, nor does it explore their persuasiveness. / The essay defines and identifies one demagogic strategy that Spencer uses in his text, but it does not discuss a rhetorical strategy. The paper does not sufficiently provide examples of where these demagogic strategies occur, nor does it explore their persuasiveness.
MLA Format, Grammar / The paper contains less than 2 grammatical or formatting errors. / The paper contains less than 5 grammatical or formatting errors. / The paper contains in text citations and no grammatical errors, but it has no Works Cited page. / The paper contains citation errors, grammatical errors, and no Works Cited page. / The paper has no Works Cited page, does not use in text citations, and features multiple grammatical errors.