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Rhetorical Analysis 
AP Essay Rubric - Rhetorical Analysis
Rhetorical Analysis
Rubric Code: U4553A
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: Undergraduate

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Addresses all the tasks

Poor

These essays demonstrate minimal understanding of the topic or the passage.
Below Average

These essays are weaker because the writer overlooks or perhaps misreads important ideas in the passage.
Average

Essays that earn a average score complete the essay task, but with no special insights; the analysis lacks depth and merely states the obvious. Frequently, the ideas are predictable and the paragraph development weak. Although the writing conveys the writer's ideas, they are presented simplistically and often contain lapses in diction or syntax.
Above Average

Above average essays complete the tasks of the essay topic well - they show some insight but usually with less precision and clarity than high-scoring essays.
Excelling

Excelling essays thoroughly address all the tasks of the essay prompt in well-organized responses. Overall, high-scoring essays present thoroughly developed, intelligent ideas; sound and logical organization; strong evidence; and articulate diction.
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Writing

Poor

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.
Below Average

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

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

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

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

Poor

Stylistically, these essays may show consistent grammatical problems, and sentence structure is usually simple and unimaginative.
Below Average

Although the writer's ideas are generally understandable, the control of language is often immature.
Average

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

Presents thoroughly developed, intelligent ideas; sound and logical organization; strong evidence; and articulate diction.
Excelling

Overall, high-scoring essays present thoroughly developed, intelligent ideas; sound and logical organization; strong evidence; and articulate diction.
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Rhetorical Analysis

Poor

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.
Below Average

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

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.
Above Average

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

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