Annotation II

Sewell – Troy Terms; 2022 Annotation Rubric

Grading Criteria (turn over)

Criterion

90 to 100 pts

There is clear time- investment in the work. No summarizing is present (outside of an allowable, quick, necessary, point).

The student focuses on the author’s (or multiple authors’) crafting of the piece.

The student has clearly read the selected work; the student responds to and writes intuitively and analytically on the selected material.

Selected quotation(s) are appropriately MLA in-text cited, and are less than 20% of the paper’s main body word-count (allowed to maintain academic integrity.

80 to 89 pts

There is relatively good time-investment, and minimal summarizing.

Student keeps the quoted material in general range of academic integrity standards, but needs to make sure they cite material consistently, and proofread for grammar and mechanics.

Student is picking up on intuitively digging into the work, and is learning to explore the reading with deeper, emotional thought, an

70 to 79 pts

Time-investment needs better management.

Student drifts too far from the literature, or simply supplies an informational biography, or summarizes.

An attempt is made at writing analytically or intuitively, but the student is struggling to maintain appropriate grammar and mechanics (sentence structure, punctuation, syntax, or understanding

60-69 pts

There is clearly little time- investment and/or care.

Student is struggling to understand the concept of annotation writing, and is making a below- average attempt at the work; student severely summarizes, and/or may have major issues with academic integrity violations (plagiarism).

0-59 pts

Time-investment is non-existent; work is severely below standard, severely plagiarized, thus lacking any academic integrity standards,

or

Work is not submitted.

There are minimal-to- no borrowed words/

paraphrases or outside opinions in the work. The student wastes no time with biographies or book-reporting oversimplification.

analytical/

literary thought.

literary thought.

The piece loses focus; it may have some academic integrity issues. The content for the assignment problematic, and/or struggles to follow the annotation protocols.

Total Points: 100