Essay: “To Kill A

Mocking Bird”

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CATE Above Stan Meets Stan Approaching St Below Stan Sc
GORY dards dards andards dards ore
Focus The thesis The thesis The thesis statement The thesis
or statement statement outlines some or all statement does
Thesis names the topic names the
of the essay topic of the
of the main points to
be discussed but
not name the
topic AND does
State and outlines the essay. does not name the not preview
ment main points to topic. what will be
be discussed. discussed.
Evide All of the Most of the At least one of the Evidence and
nce evidence and evidence and pieces of evidence examples are
examples are examples are and examples is NOT relevant
and specific, specific, relevant and has an AND/OR are
Exam relevant and relevant and explanation that not explained.
ples explanations explanations shows how that
are given that are given that piece of evidence
show how each show how each supports the author's
piece of piece of position.
evidence evidence
supports the supports the
author's author's
position. position.
Transi A variety of Transitions Some transitions The transitions
tions thoughtful show how work well, but some between ideas
transitions are ideas are connections between are unclear OR
used. They connected, but ideas are fuzzy. nonexistent.
clearly show there is little
how ideas are variety
connected
Gram Author makes Author makes Author makes 3-4 Author makes
mar & no errors in 1-2 errors in errors in grammar or more than 4
grammar or grammar or spelling that distract errors in
Spelli spelling that spelling that the reader from the grammar or
ng distract the distract the content. spelling that
reader from the reader from the distract the
content. content. reader from the
content.
Sourc All sources All sources Most sources used Many sources
es used for used for for quotes, statistics are suspect
quotes, quotes, and facts are (not credible)
statistics and statistics and credible and cited AND/OR are
facts are facts are correctly. not cited
credible and credible and correctly.
cited correctly. most are cited
correctly.