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Informative Essay Rubric Code: L24B32A By STeach4Ever Draft Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12

Informative Essay on Career
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Moderate (N/A)	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Written Portion
Ideas	Excellent Exceptionally strong and focused thesis supported solid details	Good Strong and focused thesis supported by good details	Moderate Thesis sufficiently supported by details	Fair Weak thesis supported by few details	Poor No thesis or supporting details
Organization	Excellent Exceptionally structured introduction, body, and conclusion; smooth transitions from idea to the next	Good Clearly structured introduction, body, and conclusion; good transitions from idea to the next	Moderate Adequately structured introduction, body, and conclusion; acceptable transitions from one idea to the next	Fair Poorly structured introduction, body, and conclusion; weak transitions from idea to the next	Poor No introduction, body, or conclusion; few, if any, transitions from one idea to the next
Voice	Excellent Strongly expresses the writer's personality in a manner that is engaging and suitable for the audience	Good Clearly expresses the writer's personality in a manner that is somewhat engaging and suitable for the audience	Moderate Sufficiently expresses the writer's personality in a manner that is suitable for the audience	Fair Weakly expresses the writer's personality; expression is not necessarily suitable for the audience	Poor Does not express writer's personality, or expresses it in a way that is unsuitable for the audience
Word Choice	Excellent Strong use of precise words that convey clear images to the audience	Good Good use of precise words that convey images to the audience	Moderate Adequate use of precise words that somewhat convey images to the audience	Fair Weak word choice that poorly conveys images to the audience	Poor Poor word choice that fails to convey images to the audience
Sentence Fluency	Excellent Excellent sentence variety; smooth sentence flow	Good Good sentence variety and sentence flow	Moderate Adequate sentence variety and sentence flow	Fair Weak sentence variety and sentence flow	Poor Almost no use of sentence variety; limited sentence flow
Conventions	Excellent Almost no errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics	Good Few errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics	Moderate Several errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics	Fair Frequent errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics	Poor Numerous errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics
Genre	Excellent Fulfilled genre-specific requirements with great skill	Good Fulfilled genre-specific requirements with good skill	Moderate Fulfilled genre-specific requirements with adequate skill	Fair Did not always fulfill genre-specific requirements	Poor Failed to fulfill genre-specific requirements
Written Assign. Requirements	Excellent Met all assignment requirements such as deadlines and page length	Good Met most assignment requirements such as deadlines and page length	Moderate Several failures in fulfilling assignment requirements	Fair Numerous failures in fulfilling assignment requirements	Poor Egregious failures in fulfilling assignment requirements
Presentation Portion
Organization & Planning	Excellent exceptionally structured introduction, body, & conclusion smooth transitions from idea to the next well thought-out order and inclusion of details	Good clearly structured introduction, body, and conclusion good transitions from idea to the next thought give to the order and inclusion of details	Moderate adequately structured introduction, body, & conclusion; some ideas lacking or inclusion of unnecessary content acceptable transitions from one idea to the next	Fair poorly structured introduction, body, and conclusion weak transitions from idea to the next lacking constant and complete order	Poor No introduction, body, or conclusion few, if any, transitions from one idea to the next no real organization
Introduction	Excellent enticing hook used to pull audience into the presentation purpose of presentation, with thesis, given at the start of the speech, with tone setting the stage for the speech	Good hook included, but might not be very enticing purpose of presentation, with thesis, given at the start of the speech, with tone setting the stage for the speech	Moderate hook and purpose given, but introduction lacks a thesis purpose of presentation presented in a basic manner with no real tone	Fair hook included, but no purpose or thesis tone lacking	Poor no introduction
Shared Information	Excellent informs on all requirements needed to obtain the chosen job clear and understandable content that is easily followed throughout the presentation	Good informs on all most of the requirements needed to obtain the chosen job clear and understandable content that is easily followed for most of the presentation	Moderate informs on all some of the requirements needed to obtain the chosen job some portions of the speech are clear and understandable; some portions not easy to follow	Fair informs on a few of the requirements needed to obtain the chosen job some portions of the speech are clear and understandable; some portions not easy to follow	Poor no requirements need to obtain the job are shared and/por accurate hard to follow the information and understand it
Confidence on Matter	Excellent shows strong understanding of how to obtain the chosen career confidence shown in knowledge on the topic answers audience questions with ease	Good shows a good understanding of of the career chosen and how to obtain it confidence in knowledge shown in move of the speech and can field the audience questions easily	Moderate shows understanding of the chosen career and how to obtain it confidence in some portions of the speech and audience questions	Fair shows a fair understanding of how to obtain the chosen career lacks confidence in what is shared and answers given to the audience	Poor does not seem to understand how to obtain the chosen career at all or does not clearly convey that information cannot answer audience questions
Conclusion	Excellent strong conclusion included; signaling the end of the speech without saying as much restates the purpose of the paper and the thesis	Good conclusion included restates the purpose of the paper and the thesis	Moderate conclusion included restates of purpose, but does not recap of thesis	Fair conclusion general, obvious no purpose or thesis recap included	Poor no conclusion
Volume and Tone	Excellent speaks clearly and distinctly appropriate tone and volume used throughout the presentation	Good speaks clearly and distinctly most of the time appropriate tone and volume used for most of the presentation	Moderate speaks clearly and distinctly for a good portion of the time appropriate tone and volume used off and on throughout the speech	Fair speaks clearly and distinctly some of the time no real distinct tone	Poor often mumbles or cannot be understood
Eye Contact & Body Language	Excellent appropriate eye contact, body language used throughout the presentation	Good appropriate eye contact, body language used throughout most of the presentation	Moderate appropriate eye contact, body language used for some of the presentation	Fair appropriate eye contact, body language used rarely in the presentation	Poor no eye contact used
Technology Integration	Excellent technology of some sort used within the presentation; incorporated, not just seen visual aid furthers the understanding of the topic for the audience; contributes	Good technology of some sort used within the presentation; incorporated, not just seen visual aid furthers the understanding of the topic for the audience; contributes	Moderate technology of some sort used within the presentation; incorporated a bit visual aid furthers the understanding of the topic for the audience in some sections	Fair technology of some sort used within the presentation; but not incorporated visual aid does not furthers the understanding of the topic for the audience in some sections	Poor no technology used

Subjects:

English

Types:

Writing

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