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Character Analysis Rubric

Teacher Name: Caitria Cunningham

Student Name:

CATEGORY

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Content: FOCUS 1 Topic/subject is Topic/subject is Topic/subject

NS/0

Topic/subject is Topic is
unclear or
unidentifiable or
confusing.
unreadable;
blank
responses,
responses
written in a
foreign
language,
restatements of
the prompt,
responses that
are entirely offtopic or
incoherent.

clear and is
explicitly stated
through a thesis
statement.

generally clear
though it may
not be explicitly
stated.

may be vague.

Citations

All textual
references are
cited correctly in
the text and are
included in a
Works Cited
page in MLA
format.

Most textual
references are
cited correctly in
the text and a
Works Cited
page in MLA
format is
included.

A few textual
references are
cited correctly. A
Works Cited
page in MLA
format is included
but contains
errors.

Most textual
references are
cited incorrectly.
The Works
Cited page is
either not
included or
contains major
errors.

Few or no
citations are
cited correctly.
The Works
Cited page is
not included.

Content:
SUPPORT

Support
information is
related to and
supportive of
the
topic/subject.
Multiple
specific, textual
details are used
to support the
topic and are
cited correctly.

Support
information has
minor
weaknesses in
relatedness to
and/or support
of the
topic/subject.
Specific textual
details are used,
but are more
sparse and/or
incorrectly cited.

Support
information has
major
weaknesses in
relatedness to
and/or support of
the topic/subject.
Few textual
details are used
and are either
cited incorrectly
or not cited at all.

An attempt has
been made to
add support
information, but
it was unrelated
or confusing.
Few to no
textual details
are used and
citations are
nonexistent.

No textual
details are used,
and there is no
citation, or the
details that are
used have no
relevance to the
subject/topic.

Conventions

Exhibits
complete
control of
grammatical
and spelling
conventions.
Errors are
essentially
nonexistent.

Exhibits
extensive but
not complete
control of
grammatical and
spelling
conventions.
Errors are few
and meaning is
not
compromised.

Exhibits
REASONABLE
CONTROL of
grammatical
conventions
appropriate to the
writing task:
sentence
formation;
standard usage
including
agreement,
tense, and case;
and mechanics

Exhibits
MINIMAL
CONTROL of
grammatical
conventions
appropriate to
the writing task:
sentence
formation;
standard usage
including
agreement,
tense, and case;
and mechanics

LACKS
CONTROL of
grammatical
conventions
appropriate to
the writing task:
sentence
formation;
standard usage
including
agreement,
tense, and case;
and mechanics
including use of

including use of
capitalization,
punctuation, and
spelling.

including use of capitalization,


capitalization,
punctuation,
punctuation,
and spelling.
and spelling.

Content: STYLE - Exhibits skillful


use of
Vocabulary

Exhibits minimal
use of vocabulary
that is precise
and purposeful.

Lacks use of
vocabulary that
is precise and
purposeful.

Content: FOCUS 2 Maintains focus May exhibit

May lose or may


exhibit major
lapses in focus
on topic/subject.

May fail to
Wanders from
establish focus topic to topic
on topic/subject. without
consistency; is
difficult or
impossible to
read and follow.

Organization is There is a
Content:
logical
ORGANIZATION 2 a logical

One or more
major lapses in
the logical
progression of
ideas/events is
evident.

Ideas/events
are presented in
a random
fashion.

Exhibits
reasonable use
vocabulary that of vocabulary
is precise and
that is precise
purposeful.
and purposeful.

on topic/subject minor lapses in


throughout
focus on
response.
topic/subject.

progression of
ideas/events
and is unified
and complete.

progression of
ideas/events
and is
reasonably
complete,
although minor
lapses may be
present.

Vocabulary is
largely misused
or poorly used;
sentences are
unclear, and
demonstration
of vocabulary
makes paper
difficult to read.

Moves illogically
throughout
discussion of
the topic;
incoherent and
demonstrates
lack of cohesion
throughout the
paper.

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