iRubric: Compare/Contrast Essay Rubric Com 12

__Well developed introduction and thesis statement.

__Clear, even comparisons between both revolutions.

__Fairly well developed sIntroduction and thesis statement

__ Covers both subjects but not necessarily evenly

__Introduction and thesis statement introduce the subjects for comparison or contrast, but don't give accurate and complete information

__Introduction and thesis statement do not introduce both subjects for comparison or contrast.

__Each paragraph has topic sentence that relates to the thesis statement.
__Details are clear and sufficient for comparison or contrast.
__Details clearly support comparison/contrast.

__Each paragraph contains a topic sentence that relates to the thesis statement.
__Details are clear and specific, but they do not support the comparison/contrast, or topic sentence.

__At least one topic sentence is not clear or doesn't it relate to the thesis statement.

__Details are not clear. Subjects are not given the same amount of space.

__There are no apparent topic sentences for each paragraph.


__Details are lacking, or misplaced. No vivid sense language is used.

__Accurate facts and information are used and cited in the paper.

__Facts used are relevant and helpful to the paper.

__Some facts are used but they are not cited or they are imbalanced

__Few facts are used or they are random in their use.

__Little or no facts are used the the paper. No evidence of note taking.