Guy de Maupassant "The Necklace"

ESSAY OUTLINE

Title ______________________________

Introduction
1. _____________________________ Attention grabber
2. ______________________________ Thesis statement
3. ______________________________ Background information
Body
1. ______________________________ First discussion topic
  1. ______________________________ support
  2. ______________________________ support
  3. ______________________________ support
2. ______________________________ Second discussion topic
  1. ______________________________ Support
  2. ______________________________ Support
  3. ______________________________ Support
3. ______________________________ Third discussion topic
  1. ______________________________Support
  2. ______________________________ Support
  3. ______________________________ Support

Conclusion
1. ______________________________ Restate thesis
2. ______________________________ Summary

Research paper(1102) and Essay(1102 and 1101) Rubric

CRITERIA	EXCELLENT 5 each section	GOOD 4 each section	FAIR 3 each section	POOR 2 each section	SUBSTANDARD 1 each section	Total points Total x4
Introduction	Identifies author, article, and journal. Contains clear thesis statement. Contains background information and has more than six sentences.	Identifies author, article, and journal. Contains clear thesis statement. Contains background information and has five or six sentences.	Identifies author, article, and journal. Contains clear thesis statement. Contains minimal or no background information and has less than five sentences.	Does not identify either the author or the work. Does not have a clear thesis statement. Has 1-3 sentences.	Missing both the author and the title. Have 1-3 sentences. Does not have a clear thesis statement.
Organization and structure And conclusion	Has at least five paragraphs. Contains proper sentence fluency and transitions. Is informative, and each paragraph contains more than six sentences	Has at least five paragraphs. Sentence fluency and transitions are present in most of the essay. No more than one paragraph has less than five sentences.	Has five paragraphs, but at least two of the paragraphs are not developed and have less than five sentences. Sentence fluency and transitions are absent or minimally used.	Has less than five paragraphs. Writing is aimless and disorganized. Most of the paragraphs have less than five sentences.	Has 1-3 paragraphs. Support is lacking or missing. Topic has not been developed. Assignment word count has not been met. Standard conventions of English have not been used.
Topic Development	Quotations from the source, illustrations, explanations, and examples are used in every paragraph to support your viewpoints.	Quotations from the source, illustrations, explanations, and examples are used in most of the paragraphs to support your viewpoints.	Quotations are missing from the sourcel. Examples and explanations are used sparingly.	Topic is not supported with quotations, examples, and explanations.	Topic is not supported and not developed.
Grammar, punctuation, and spelling	Essay is written in third person. There are no run-ons and no fragments. Essay contains less than three grammatical errors.	Essay is written in third person. There are no fragments. No more than one run-on. No more than 5 grammatical errors.	No more than one run-on and one fragment. Grammatical errors are sometimes distracting. Essay uses second person.	Numerous Run-on sentences and fragments. Grammatical errors are distracting. Second and first person dominate the essay.	Topic is unclear because of the many grammatical errors.
In-text citations and reference page.	In-text citations are properly used, cited, and applied, and reference page is in MLA format.	In-text citations are used correctly for the most part. Reference page is included, but MLA format is not correct.	In-text citations and reference page are not in MLA format.	Missing either in-text citations or reference page	Missing in-text citations and reference page
TOTAL POINTS X 4