Faculty Center for Professional Development

Analytic Rubric

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This rubric is designed to make clear the grading process for written communication by informing you, the writer, what key elements are expected by the university in a “good” piece of written work.

Your written work will be evaluated by the criteria below in order to give you specific feedback to help guide your development as a writer. Your writing will not be graded point by point by these items; it will be graded for its overall quality.

Bank	Excellent	Bank	Competent	Bank	Not Acceptable
Bank	4	3	2	1	0
Presentation
1. The purpose and focus are clear and consistent	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
2. The main claim is clear, significant, and challenging	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
3. Organization is purposeful, effective, and appropriate	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
4. Sentence form and word choice are varied and appropriate	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
5. Punctuation, grammar, spelling, and mechanics are appropriate	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
Content
6. Information and evidence are accurate, appropriate, and integrated effectively	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
7. Claims and ideas are supported and elaborated	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
8. Alternative perspectives are carefully considered and represented	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
Thinking
9. Reasoning is cogent and persuasive	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
10. Analysis/synthesis/evaluation/interpretation are effective and consistent	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
11. Independent thinking is evident.	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
12. Creativity/originality is evident	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
Assignment Specific Criteria
13. Responds to all aspects of the assignment	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
14. Documents evidence appropriately	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank
15. Considers the appropriate audience/implied reader	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank	Bank