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Rubric for Persuasive Essay

Use the following criteria to evaluate persuasive essays

2: Needs
4: Outstanding 3: Good 1: Not Done
Improvement
Provides Provides Provides some Shows little
arguments, arguments, support that attention to the
illustrations, and illustrations, and appeals to the audience or
Audience and words that words that appeal persuasive persuasive
Purpose forcefully appeal to to the audience purpose purpose
the audience and and serve the
effectively serve persuasive
persuasive purpose purpose
Uses clear, Uses clear Uses inconsistent Shows lack of
consistent organizational organizational organizational
Organization organizational strategy with strategy strategy; writing
strategy occasional is confusing
inconsistencis
Provides specific, Provides some Provides some Lacks support
well-elaborated elaborated support, but with
Elaboration
support for the support for the little elaboration
writers position writers position
Uses transitions to Uses transitions; Uses few Show little
connect ideas shows few transitions; shows connection
Use of
smoothly; shows mechanical errors some mechanical betweenideas;
Language/
Mechanics
few mechanical errors shows many
errors mecahnical
errors
(Source: Carroll, J. A., Wilson, E. E., & Fortini, G. (2003). Prentice hall writing and grammar: Communication in action. New
Jersey, NJ: Pearson Education)

SCORE : Correct number x 100


Total Correct number

: .. x 100 = .

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