SHORT ANSWER RUBRIC FOR MONSTER Ideas and Content • Clearly stated thesis or position (interpretive, analytic, evaluative, reflective) • Inferences and conclusions are supported by text, outside works, or personal experience • Relate own ideas to supporting details in a clear and logical manner • Support is appropriate for the format of the original work Organization • Contains introduction, body, and conclusion • Introduction contains thesis statement • Conclusion restates position • Follows a logical pattern- chronology, spacial, etc. Word Choice • Effective use of paraphrasing and quotes • Language that effectively captures mood and tone of original work • Fresh, original expression Voice • An effective level of closeness or distance from the audience • Distinction between author’s tone, mood, attitudes, etc. and that of writer Sentence Fluency • Sentence structure reflects writer, not author • Enhances meaning by drawing attention to key ideas or reinforcing relationships among ideas • Variation in structure and length of sentences Conventions • Strong control of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, paragraph breaks, grammar, usage • Manipulation of conventions may occur for stylistic effect • Grammar and usage contribute to clarity and style • Paragraph breaks that support the ideas being conveyed
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