iRubric: AP_English: Rhetoric & Diction rubric

The evidence insightfully supports your thesis, is clearly stated and examples from both pieces are used for support. You identify rhetorical strategies by which the authors present their ideas and evidence to readers. You demonstrate how the strategy helps the writer to organize evi­dence, connect facts into a sequence, and provide clusters of information nec­essary for conveying a purpose or an argument.

The evidence somewhat supports your thesis and are sometimes included to support the thesis, but connections are not always clear. You demonstrate how the strategy helps the writer to organize evi­dence, but do not show how either connects facts into a sequence, and provides clusters of information nec­essary for conveying a purpose or an argument.

The evidence does not clearly support the thesis is random or not included. You do not demonstrate how the strategy helps the writer to organize evi­dence, connect facts into a sequence, nor provide clusters of information nec­essary for conveying a purpose or an argument.

You end with the same scenario as proof that your essay is helpful in creating a new understanding. You refer to the introductory paragraph by using key words or parallel concepts and images that you also used in the introduction.
You synthesized and did not summarize. You included a brief summary of the paper’s main points, but don’t simply repeat things that were in your paper. You showed how points you made and examples you used fit together.

You end with the same scenario as proof that your essay is helpful in creating a new understanding. You refer to the introductory paragraph by using key words or parallel concepts and images that you also used in the introduction.
You summarized and did little synthesizing. You did not included a brief summary of the paper’s main points, but simply repeated things that were in your paper.

You inferred with the same scenario as proof that your essay is helpful in creating a new understanding. You do not refer to the introductory paragraph by using key words or parallel concepts and images that you also used in the introduction.
You summarized and did not synthesize. You did not include a brief summary of the paper’s main points, but simply repeated things that were in your paper.