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Legal Essay Law Essay (Argumentative) Rubric Code: Z247758 By jennifersweer Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Law Type: Assessment Grade Levels: 9-12

Law Essay
	Level 5 Excellent (N/A)	Level 4 Good (N/A)	Level 3 Satisfactory (N/A)	Level 2 Developing (N/A)	Level 1 Poor (N/A)
Style 20 % Knowledge / Understanding	Level 5 Profound use of legal terminology and concepts covered from the course. Perfect format and structure.	Level 4 Good use of legal terminology and concepts covered from the course. Strong format and structure.	Level 3 Fair attempt at using some legal terminology and concepts from the course. Good format and structure.	Level 2 Not much attempt made to use legal terminology and concepts covered from the course. If used, not used properly. Developing format and structure.	Level 1 No attempt to use legal terminology and concepts covered from the course. Problems with format and or structure.
Research 30 % Thinking	Level 5 An extensive amount of strong examples or case studies from research have been included throughout the essay. Student has included an excellent list of resources in APA format.	Level 4 A good amount of strong examples or case studies from research have been included throughout the essay. Student has included a few sources and has used APA format.	Level 3 An attempt has been made to use a couple of examples from research but are not very strong. Student has a couple of sources, but has not included them in APA format.	Level 2 Not much research is included throughout the essay. Examples are used but are very vague. Student has no secondary sources in a Bibliography.	Level 1 No research is included throughout the essay.
Mechanics 10 % Communication	Level 5 Extensive proofreading, eliminating all sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling errors.	Level 4 Proofreading is evident as there are minimal errors in sentence structure, spelling and punctuation.	Level 3 Proofreading needs more attention as there are a few errors in sentence structure, spelling and punctuation.	Level 2 Limited proofreading. Many careless errors in mechanics.	Level 1 Little to no proofreading; reads as a rough draft.
Content 40 % Application	Level 5 Advanced thesis. Carefully curated and relevant information. It is very obvious that the course material was referred to while writing the essay.	Level 4 Strong thesis. Relevant information. Student has referred to the course material to write the essay.	Level 3 Clear thesis. Some relevant information. There is evidence of some attempt to refer to course material.	Level 2 Basic thesis. Very little relevant information. Very little use of course material.	Level 1 Thesis is lacking. Much of the information is irrelevant. No use of course material.