English 1C SLO-aligned Assignment
The assignment designed using these criteria will be used to assess the course SLOs and should be assigned as a later (or last) essay.
Students will write a 4-5 page essay, not including Works Cited page, which is also required (but does not count towards length requirement. In the essay, the students will do the following:
- Express critical viewpoints and develop original thesis-driven arguments in response to social, political, and philosophical issues and/or to works of literature and literary theory. This argumentative essay will be well organized, demonstrate an ability to support a claim using analysis and elements of argumentation, and integrate primary and secondary sources.
- Use at least three sources and not over-rely on one secondary source for most of the information. The students should use multiple sources and synthesize the information found in them.
- Address issues of bias, credibility, and relevance in primary and secondary sources.
- Demonstrate understanding of analytical methods and structural concepts such as inductive and deductive reasoning, cause and effect, logos, ethos, and pathos, and the recognition of formal and informal fallacies in language and thought.
- Use MLA format for the document, in-text citations, and Works Cited page.
- Integrate quotations and paraphrases using signal phrases and analysis or commentary.
- Sustain the argument, use transitions effectively, and use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Six-Point Rubric: Scoring Guide
Based on a six-point scale, your paper will earn scores based on the following:
6/A/100-90% Shows the writer has fully understood the assignment and demonstrates clear competence in writing with intelligent insight and impressive organization, voice and editorial skill
A paper in this category will contain most of the following:
- Effectively addresses the writing prompt including all of its tasks and criteria
- Is well organized and thoroughly developed
- Is focused, coherent and unified
- Uses insightful and well-integrated support, including in-text documentation when required
- Demonstrates sentence variety and a range of vocabulary
- Is free from grammatical errors taught to date
- Follows MLA format well
5/B/89-80% Shows that the writer has understood the assignment and written an effective response to it
A paper in this category will contain most of the following:
- More than adequately addresses the writing prompt including all of its tasks and criteria
- Is overall well organized and developed
- Uses appropriate and integrated support, including in-text documentation when required
- Demonstrates a degree of sentence variety and proper word choices
- Is generally free from grammatical errors taught to date
- Follows MLA format
4/C/79-70% Shows that the writer has understood the assignment and written a satisfactory response to it
A paper in this category will reveal most of the following:
- Addresses the writing prompt adequately but may slight a task and or criteria
- Is generally organized and satisfactorily developed
- Uses sufficient and generally acceptably integrated support including in-text documentation when required
- Demonstrates proper sentence structure throughout most of the paper and contains few erroneous word choices
- Displays occasional difficulty with grammar errors taught to date, but reveals an overall satisfactory understanding of the rules taught.
- Follows MLA moderately well
3/D/69-60% Shows that the writer has marginally understood the assignment but has written a less than effective response to it. This is not a passing paper.
A Paper in this category will reveal more than one of the following problems:
- Attempts to address the writing prompt but may altogether neglect a task and slight others, and may not meet one or more criterion of the assignment
- Is relatively unorganized and or inadequately developed
- Uses insufficient and some unacceptable support which is often poorly integrated
- Demonstrates a lack of knowledge of sentence structure and uses some poor or erroneous word choices
- Has a pattern or an accumulation of errors in grammar issues taught to date
2-1/D-F/59%- Shows limited competence in writing and leaves little doubt whether the writer understood the assignment and may also reflect less than adequate effort.
Is substandard in many ways.
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