28 Oct MLA Grading Rubric-Essays
Writing Assignment/Title: _____________________
Date Due/Submitted:___________________
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Criteria |
Grading Scale |
Points |
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| 90-100 | 80-89 | 70-79 | 60-69 | ||
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Thesis Sentence
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Thesis sentence is clear, correctly positioned and restated in closing
paragraph |
Thesis statement is either unclear or incorrectly place and is restated in the closing paragraph. | Thesis Statement is unclear and incorrectly placed and is restated in the closing sentence. | Thesis statement is unclear and incorrectly placed, and not stated in closing sentence. | |
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Major Supporting Detail Sentences/Unity
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Each body Paragraph (s) contain a topic sentence and at least three major supporting detail sentences that relate back to the topic sentence. | Each body paragraph (s) has two major supporting details that relate back to the topic sentence | Each body paragraph has one major supporting detail sentences that relates back to the topic sentence. | Each body paragraph has no supporting detail sentences that relate back to the topic sentence. | |
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Minor/Elaborating Detail Sentences
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Each major supporting detail in the body of the essay has three or more elaborating or minor detail sentences. | Each major supporting detail has at least two or more minor detail sentences. | Each major supporting detail has one minor detail sentence. | Each supporting detail has no elaborating detail sentence. | |
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MLA Formatting: Heading, Word Count, Margins, Citations, Font and Spacing |
Essay uses proper MLA heading, title and word count and contains no formatting errors | Essay mostly uses proper MLA Formatting but contains two errors. | Essay contains three errors in MLA formatting errors. | Essay contains more than three errors in MLA
formatting |
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Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement; Parts of Speech Usage
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Essay s) contains no errors in subject- verb agreement or the use of pronouns and other parts of speech. | Essay contains two errors in subject -verb agreement or the use of pronouns and other parts of speech. | Essay contains three errors in subject -verb agreement or the use of pronouns and other parts of speech. | Essay contains three or more errors in subject -verb agreement or the use of pronouns and other parts of speech. | |
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Sentence Structure/ Coherence
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Essay contains sentence variety (simple, compound and complex sentences) and no errors in the use of transitions. | Essay contains sentence variety but two errors in the use of transitions. | Essay contains no sentence variety and contains three errors in the use of transitions. | Essay contains no sentence variety and contains three errors in the use of transitions. | |
| Mechanics and Grammar
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Essay has no punctuation, capitalization and spelling errors. | Essay has one-two punctuation, capitalization and spelling errors. | Essay has three-five punctuation, capitalization and spelling errors. | Paragraph has six or more punctuation, capitalization and spelling errors. | |
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Pre-writing |
Paper contains all articles, outlines and pre-writing activities | Paper is missing one activity or has one error. | Paper is missing two outlines/graphs/articles or has two errors. | Three or more outlines/graph/arti-cles missing with errors. | |
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Writer’s Name__________________________
Class Title__________________
Class Number _____________
