CONTENT
Annotated List of Works Consulted Rubric
Exceeds Expectations
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Accurately paraphrases the purpose and
content of each unique source.
Insightfully evaluates sources using CRAAP
test.
Meets Expectations
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Uses reliable, high quality, academically sound
sources relevant to the assignment.
6 sources are cited, summarized, and
evaluated.
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Almost always accurately paraphrases the
purpose and content of each source.
Adequately evaluates sources.
Uses reliable sources relevant to the
assignment, but some may be of indeterminate
quality.
Fails to Meet Expectations
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Inaccurately paraphrases the purpose and/or
content of sources.
Fails to or inaccurately evaluates sources.
Uses unreliable, poor quality sources that would
fail basic standards of academic research, or
sources irrelevant to the assignment.
6 sources are cited, summarized, and evaluated
SENTENCE FLUENCY
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Exceeds Expectations
Not only uses sentences correctly, but also
uses sentences in particularly effective ways.
Uses a variety of compound, complex and
compound-complex sentences.
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Meets Expectations
Uses sentences correctly: demonstrates an
understanding of how sentences work and are
constructed (parts of speech, sentence types,
completeness.)
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Fails to Meet Expectations
Does not use sentences correctly: does not
demonstrate an understanding of how
sentences work and are constructed.
Uses confusing, awkward, or wordy sentence
structures that interfere with intended meaning.
WORD CHOICE/TONE
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Exceeds Expectations
Consistently uses correct and appropriate word
choice for assignment’s audience and
expectations of formality.
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Meets Expectations
Generally uses correct and appropriate word
choice for assignment’s audience and
expectations of formality.
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Fails to Meet Expectations
Misuses diction for assignment’s audience and
expectations of formality.
MECHANICS
Exceeds Expectations
Uses correct grammar: correctly uses subjectverb agreement; avoids fragments, fused
sentences, and comma splices.
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Correctly uses punctuation like commas,
apostrophes, colons, semicolons, quotation
marks, italics/underlining, and question marks.
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Uses correct spelling, capitalization, and
abbreviations.
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Follows the assigned documentation convention
through correctly formatted Works Cited entries.
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Entire Works Cited page is formatted correctly.
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All entries are complete and correct.
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Sources are listed in alphabetical order
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Meets Expectations
Contains only a few errors in grammar,
punctuation, spelling, etc, so that meaning and
readability are not greatly impeded.
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A few minor elements of a few individual entries
are incorrect (punctuation, capitalization in
titles, order of multiple authors in one entry,
etc.)
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A few minor elements of the overall format of
the page are incorrect (hanging indent, title of
page, correctly spaced throughout.)
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One entry is missing some information.
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RCD, Grade 11, ELA, Unit 5, Task 1
Created 2/17/2015
Adapted from http://www.uwc.edu/uwc/depts/english/Teaching_Tips/AnnWCRubric.pdf
Fails to Meet Expectations
Contains so many errors in grammar,
punctuation, spelling, etc., that meaning and
readability are impeded.
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Many minor elements of individual entries
and/or of the overall format are incorrect
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Major elements in individual entries are
incorrect (titles, names, publication information,
dates, formatting, type of source, etc.)
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Major elements of the overall format of the page
are incorrect (layout of page, order of entries,
etc.)
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More than one entry is incomplete
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RCD, Grade 11, ELA, Unit 5, Task 1
Created 2/17/2015
Adapted from http://www.uwc.edu/uwc/depts/english/Teaching_Tips/AnnWCRubric.pdf