iRubric: Rhetorical Analysis: 6 parts of a Speech rubric

Perhaps unfinished, these essays offer no analysis of the passage and little or no evidence for the student's ideas. Incorrect assertions may be made about the passage.

The student may summarize the passage's ideas instead of analyzing them.

Although the writing conveys the writer's ideas, they are presented simplistically and often contain lapses in diction or syntax.

There may be lapses in correct diction or sophisticated language, but the essay is generally well written.

The writing demonstrates stylistic sophistication and control over the elements of effective writing, although it is not necessarily faultless.

Essays demonstrate little ability to identify or analyze rhetorical strategies. Sometimes these essays misread the prompt and replace it with easier tasks, such as paraphrasing the passage or listing some strategies the author uses.

Essays demonstrate little discussion of rhetorical strategies or incorrect identification and/or analysis of those strategies.

Essays demonstrate uneven or insufficient understanding of how rhetorical strategies create an author's point. Often, the writer merely lists what he or she observes in the passage instead of analyzing effect.

Essays demonstrate sufficient examination of the author's point and the rhetorical strategies he uses to enhance the central idea.

Essays demonstrate significant understanding of the passage, its intent, and the rhetorical strategies the author employs.