iRubric: Character Analysis Essay rubric

Students includes at least three strong pieces of evidence from the text, including direct quotes, to support the assertion.

Student uses three pieces of evidence from the text to support the assertion. Evidence could be a little stronger.

Student only uses two pieces of evidence from the text to support the assertion. May only include one or two direct quotes, and these may be somewhat unrelated to the assertion.

Student only includes one piece of evidence to support the assertion. No direct quotes from the text. Evidence does not clearly support the assertion.

Student included an introduction (containing strong attention-getting material, the title and author, and the thesis statement), a body paragraph for each quality analyzed, and a conclusion. Student cites source of all direct quotations by creating in-text citations using MLA formatting guidelines .

Student included an introduction (containing attention-getting material, the title and author, and the thesis statement), a body paragraph for each quality analyzed, and a conclusion. Student cites source of some quotations by creating in-text citations using ML A formatting guidelines, but may have one formatting error.

Student is missing pertinent information (introduction, body, conclusion). Errors in organization may make it difficult to read essay. An attempt to use in-text citations for direct quotations has been made, but the citations do not follow MLA format.

Student is missing several parts of the essay. May have written the essay as one long paragraph or as a list. Organization errors make the essay difficult to read. In-text citations have not been used to cite the source of direct quotations.