363 Annotated Bibliography Rubric, By Leslie Bruce

SLO

Absent or Below Basic

Audience's needs are often
not recognized: terms and
ideas need explanation and
language needs adjustment
for the audience. Purpose
Write for a specific
(to persuade reader that
audience and purpose. sources are appropriate for
your review) isn't clear or
achieved.

Developing
Shows some attention to
audience's needs,
sometimes defining
necessary terms and ideas
and using audienceappropriate language.
Purpose (to persuade reader
that sources are appropriate
for your review) may be
unclear at times, and it may
not be achieved
convincingly.

Proficient
Usually shows attention to
audience's needs, defining
necessary terms and ideas and
using audience-appropriate
language. Purpose (to
persuade reader that sources
are appropriate for your review)
may be implied, but it's clear
and achieved.

Omits or uses disciplineappropriate in-text and endof-text citations and

quotation marks incorrectly.
Using the appropriate Drops quotations and ideas
into text without
majors customary
citation style, ethically introducing source.
cite and communicate Frequently uses irrelevant
or unpersuasive sources or
information from a
relies exclusively on one
variety of disciplineappropriate sources. source.

A few errors in disciplineappropriate in-text and endof-text citations and

quotation marks. Often
includes sources without
introduction in cases when
introduction is necessary
and discipline appropriate.
Sometimes relies too heavily
on a single source or uses
irrelevant or unpersuasive
sources.

Correctly uses disciplineappropriate in-text and end-oftext citations and quotation

marks. Usually introduces each
source fully (as necessary and
discipline-appropriate)reader
knows who did the research or
communicating, for whom, and
why. Use of sources is usually
diverse, relevant and
persuasive.

Annotations to the
working title and thesis
are unclear, and their
Compare, evaluate,
relevance, timeliness,
synthesize, and
balance, and authority
communicate
may be questionable or
carefully, objectively,
and persuasively the unclear. Alternately, the
writer may not have
relative merits of
written the required
alternative or
opposing arguments, sentences for each
source.
assumptions, and

Annotations are related to Annotations usually

the working title and
persuade reader that the
thesis, but their relevance, listed sources support the
timeliness, balance, and working title and thesis and
authority may be
are relevant, timely,
questionable or unclear.
balanced, and authoritative.

cultural values.
Integrate this
evaluative work into a
persuasive argument.

Organize, focus, and

communicate ones
4 thoughts clearly and
effectively to address
a rhetorical situation.

Organizational devices
(working title and thesis,
summary sentences,
headings) are missing or
unclear. Two- to threesentence annotations are
incoherent.

Organizational devices
(working title and thesis,
summary sentences,
headings) fit the prompt,
but may be vague, too
broad, or inconsistenly or
illogically linked. Two- to
three-sentence
annotations may not be
coherent.

Clear, specific organizational

devices (working title and
thesis, summary sentences,
headings) fit the prompt and
tie ideas and topics together.
Two- to three-sentence
annotations are coherent.

Spelling, syntax, diction,

or punctuation errors
impede readability.
Recognize, evaluate, Lanuage may reflect a
and employ the
gender or cultural bias.
features and contexts
Design may be
of language and
unconventional and
design that express
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and influence meaning ineffective.
and that demonstrate
sensitivity to gender
and cultural
differences.

Spelling, syntax, diction, Spelling, syntax, diction, or

or punctuation errors often punctuation errors are few
impede readability or
and do not distract from
otherwise distract from
meaning. Lanuage respects
meaning. Lanuage may
gender and cultural
occasionally suggest a
differences. Design is
gender or cultural bias.
conventional and effective.
Design may be
inconventional or
ineffective.

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Advanced
Shows sophisticated attention
to audience's needs, defining
necessary terms and ideas and
using audience-appropriate
language. Purpose (to
persuade reader that sources
are appropriate for your
review) is clear and achieved
with style.

Correctly uses disciplineappropriate in-text and end-oftext citations and quotation

marks. Introduces each source
fully (as necessary and
discipline-appropriate)reader
knows who did the research or
communicating, for whom, and
why. Use of sources is always
diverse, relevant and
persuasive.

Annotations persuade reader

that the listed sources
support the working title and
thesis and are relevant,
timely, balanced, and
authoritative.

Clear, specific organizational

devices (working title and
thesis, summary sentences,
headings) fit the prompt and
tie ideas and topics together
logically and seamlessly.
Two- to three-sentence
annotations flow logically
and seamlessly.

Outstanding control of
language, including effective
diction and sentence variety.
Lanuage respects gender
and cultural differences.
Design is conventional and
effective.