ENC 1102/1145 Rubric

*any assignments that are too short will also suffer point deductions.
Any assignment without page numbers will lose three points*

Consult the syllabus for a more detailed explanation about the respective assignments. Also, I make other deductions as I deem necessary. For example, the annotated bibliography requires a periodical as one source. No periodical will result in a ten point deduction.

Prospectus

If you turn in a two page prospectus you automatically get forty points. Here is how you get the other sixty:
Grammar . . . 7%
Title . . . 3%
Originality . . . 5%
Focus . . . 5%
Introduction
(a) interest level (does the introduction pull the reader in?) 5%
(b) thesis (an underlined or italicized thesis of one to two sentences that takes a position) 5%
Organization. . . 5%
? questions you will need to answer in order to complete the project
or areas you will need more information about . . . 10%
integration of any Research with appropriate citations
(a)one source with four direct quotes used in the paper and appropriate ciation after each quote 4%
(b)a second source with four direct quotes used in the paper and appropriate citation after each quote 4%
(c) a works cited page with citation of each of the two sources 2%
1 Draft, two separate copies with written response on each
one copy . . . 2.5%
second copy . . . 2.5%

Annotated Bibliography

Ten sources each source counts 10% 10X10=100
*As usual grammer can take away as many as seven points of your grade.

one source
Citation . . . . 1% (it is either correct or it is not)

annotation
a) summary/description of the work . . .1%
b) incorporation into the summary of three direct quotes, not paraphrases, with page numbers from different pages (if your source is under three pages, you can use quotes from the same page) . . . 3%
c) explantion of why it will
or won't be useful to your study . . . 1%
zeroxed or otherwise reproduced page, not the front or back cover, from the work with its title at the top (if I can't tell what work the page is from, you will not receive credit for the copy). . .2%

length at least 50 words . . . 2%

Research Paper

Grammar . . . 7%
Title . . . 3%
Introduction
(a) interest level 5%
(b) underlined or italizied thesis 5%
Conclusion . . . 10%
Overall Content (this includes such things as use of examples, voice, originality, analysis, detail, focus, the absence of "filler," and using new information rather than information that is commonly
known). . . 20%
Transitions . . .5%
organization . . .5%
use of research (this includes integration of research, citations, and amount of research in the paper). . .28%

Drafts. We have done two drafts. I want to see two copies of each of the drafts with handwritten responses on the drafts.
draft one first copy . . . 3%
second copy . . . 3%
draft two first copy . . . 3%
second copy . . . 3%

*a paper with no or minimal research is not a research paper and will not fulfill this assignment in any way. Consequently, papers with little or no research will receive a failing grade. Remember, include a works cited page or lose ten points.

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