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Compare/contrast point by point format essay

Rubric Code: Q543W3

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Subject: English

Type: Assessment

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Compare/Contrast
	Poor 1 pts	Unsatisfactory 2 pts	Satisfactory 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts	Superior 6 pts
Organization	Poor Your essay contains 4 paragraphs or less, no hook, missing thesis statement, and few or no transition words throughout the essay. The ideas of the essay flow in an unclear order. No order of ideas present at all.	Unsatisfactory Your essay contains 4 paragraphs or less, no hook, unclear or missing thesis statement, and few or no transition words throughout the essay. The ideas of the essay flow in an unclear order.	Satisfactory Your essay contains 4 paragraphs or less, very weak hook, unclear thesis statement, and few transition words throughout the essay. The ideas of the essay flow in an unclear order.	Good Your essay contains 4 paragraphs or less, satisfactory hook, fair thesis statement, and few transition words throughout the essay. The ideas of the essay flow in a satisfactory order.	Excellent Your essay contains 5 paragraphs or less, good hook, good thesis statement, and some transition words throughout the essay. The ideas of the essay flow in a good order.	Superior Your essay contains 5 paragraphs, captivating hook, clear thesis statement, mulitiple and effective transition words throughout the essay. The ideas of the essay flow in a very logical order.
Ideas	Poor Two games are weakly stated and no aspects of the games are used as well as no examples or detail used to elaborate	Unsatisfactory Two games are stated, three or less aspects of the games are compared/contrasted with numerous confusing examples and detail, not elaborating each idea effectively	Satisfactory Two games are stated, three or less aspects of the games are compared/contrasted with a few confusing examples and detail, not elaborating each idea effectively	Good Two games are clearly stated, three or less aspects of the games are compared/contrasted with good and some examples and detail to elaborate each idea	Excellent Two games are clearly stated, three or less aspects of the games are compared/contrasted with excellent and several examples and detail to elaborate each idea	Superior Two games are clearly stated, three aspects of the games are compared/contrasted with superior and numerous examples and detail to elaborate each idea
Word Choice	Poor 1 or no vivid word/phrase choices are used throughout the essay. Poor use of synonyms are used to avoid repetition.	Unsatisfactory At least 2 vivid word/phrase choices are used throughout the essay. Unsatisfactory use of synonyms are used to avoid repetition.	Satisfactory At least 3 vivid word/phrase choices are used throughout the essay. Satisfactory use of synonyms are used to avoid repetition.	Good At least 4 vivid word/phrase choices are used throughout the essay. Good use of synonyms are used to avoid repetition.	Excellent At least 5 vivid word/phrase choices are used throughout the essay. Excellent use of synonyms are used to avoid repetition.	Superior At least 6 vivid word/phrase choices are used throughout the essay. Outstanding use of synonyms are used to avoid repetition.
Conventions	Poor Sentence structure and use of punctuation is poor (7+ errors) Spelling errors at 7+	Unsatisfactory Sentence structure and use of punctuation is unsatisfactory (6 errors) Spelling errors are at 6	Satisfactory Sentence structure and use of punctuation is satisfactory (5 errors) Spelling errors are at 5	Good Sentence structure and use of punctuation is good (4 errors) Spelling errors are at 4	Excellent Sentence structure and use of punctuation is excellent (3 errors) Spelling errors at 3.	Superior Sentence structure and use of punctuation is superior (1 or 2 errors) Spelling errors are under 2.

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