CATEGORY

Expert

Professional

Amateur

Uninformed

Responsiveness to the Assignment

Contribution clearly relates to all aspects of the assignment. Work includes several supporting details and/or examples.

Contribution clearly relates to most aspects of the assignment. Work includes few supporting details and/or examples.

Contribution relates to some aspects of the assignment. Few details and/or examples are given.

Information has little or nothing to do with the assignment.

Evidence of Expertise

Writing demonstrates command of the relevant professional literature beyond that which was assigned and draws on that knowledge to offer supporting details and/or examples. May also draw on rich, relevant personal experience.

Writing demonstrates knowledge of secondary and web resources beyond the assigned reading. Draws on that knowledge, along with relevant personal experience to offer supporting details and/or examples.

Writing demonstrates knowledge of the assigned reading. Contribution draws on the reading, along with personal experience to offer supporting details and/or examples.

Writing fails to demonstrate any knowledge of required reading, instead relying solely on one's own opinion and personal experience to offer supporting details and/or examples.

Quality of Writing

Writing is clearly organized with a thesis statement and carefully written paragraphs (introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence) in support of that thesis.

Writing is clearly organized with a clear point. Most paragraphs are carefully written (introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence) and contribute to the purpose.

Writing lacks organization, but manages to convey the intended message. Paragraphs are disorganized, but coherent.

Writing lacks organization and a message.

Citations

Writer attributes ideas to others as appropriate and includes sufficient relevant details and information to allow readers to locate sources.

Writer attributes ideas to others as appropriate and attempts to include relevant details and information to allow readers to locate sources.

Writer attributes ideas to others as appropriate, but fails to include relevant details and information to allow readers to locate sources.

Writer fails to attribute ideas to others as appropriate.

Mechanics

No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.

Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors

A few grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors.

A distracting number of grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.