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Persuasive Essay Rubric Persuasive Essay Rubric Rubric Code: U6A54A By mstaylor Draft Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8

Persuasive Essay Rubric
	Excellent 10 pts	Great 8 pts	Good 6 pts	Fair 4 pts	Minimal 2 pts
Create and show controlling idea	Excellent Student created a persuasive essay which showed a controlling idea. This idea was strongly supported throughout each and every paragraph of essay.	Great Student created a persuasive essay which showed a controlling idea. This idea was strongly supported through most of the essay.	Good Student created a persuasive essay. However, the controlling idea was evident, but only minimally supported	Fair Controlling idea was stated, but not not supported.	Minimal No evidence of goal.
Supporting details written clearly.	Excellent Student had supporting details with facts in every paragraph which strongly supported his/her argument.	Great Student had supporting details with facts through which strongly supported his/her argument in most of the essay.	Good Student had only 3 supporting details with facts which strongly supported his/her argument in the essay.	Fair Student had only 1-2 supporting details, with little support.	Minimal No evidence of goal.
Irrelevant information exluded	Excellent There was no irrelevant information in student's essay.	Great There was only 1 piece of irrelevant information in this essay.	Good There were 2-3 pieces of irrelevant information in this essay.	Fair There was a great deal of irrelevant information in this essay.	Minimal Most or all of the essays details were irrelevant to the controlling idea/argument.
Emotional Appeal in writing	Excellent Student appealed to the reader's emotions in each paragraph.	Great Student appealed to the reader's emotions through all but one of the paragraphs.	Good Students appealed to the reader's emotions two times.	Fair Student appealed to the reader's emotions one time.	Minimal No evidence of goal.
Persuasive Vocabulary Used	Excellent Student convinced the reader that his/her argument was the only fair way.	Great Student's writing was mostly convincing that his/her argument was the only fair way.	Good Student's attempted to convince the reader that his/her way was the only fair way.	Fair There was only 1 time the student mentioned that their argument was the fair way.	Minimal No evidence of goal.