Comparison/Contrast Paper

Rubric   Summary  Papers  

Masters  in  Educational  Leadership    

Category   Excellent   Good/Average   Average/Minimum   Unsatisfactory   POINTS  

  Introduction    

3  points   2  points   1  point   0  points     Introduction  is  well   written,  capturing  the   reader’s  attention.  

A  good  attempt  is  made   to  capture  the  reader’s   attention.  

Very  little  attention  paid   to  the  introduction  and   does  not  capture  the   reader’s  attention.  

Introduction  is  vaguely   written  and  does  not   lead  the  reader  to  want   to  read  the  paper.  

 

Organization   Paper  is  well  organized   and  follows  all   designated  guidelines.  

Paper  is  organized  and   follows  designated   guidelines.  

Paper  is  somewhat   organized  and  follows   some  of  the  designated   guidelines.  

Paper  is  disorganized  and   difficult  to  follow.  

 

Writing   Conventions  

The  paper  is  free  of   mechanical/grammatical   errors  and   demonstrates  high   quality  writing  at  the   graduate  level.  

Paper  is  free  of   mechanical/grammatical     errors  and   demonstrates  good   quality  writing  at  the   graduate  level.  

Paper  contains  some   mechanical/grammatical   errors  and  is  not  quality   writing  at  the  graduate   level.  

Paper  contains  numerous   mechanical/grammatical   errors  and  is  not   graduate  level  writing.  

 

Quality  of   Summary      

Paper  captures  a  very   strong  restatement  of     the  main  thrust  of  the   article  or  video  and   reveals  the  opinion  from   the  author.  

Paper  captures  a   restatement  of  the  main   thrust  of  the  article  or   video  and  reveals  the   opinion  from  the   author.  

Paper  attempts  to   capture  a  restatement  of   the  main  thrust  of  the   article  or  video  but   reveals  little  opinion  from   the  author.  

Paper  shows  little  or  no   evidence  of  a  summary   that  captures  the  main   thrust  of  the  article  of   video  and  no  opinion   from  the  author.  

 

Conclusion   Paper  has  a  strong   conclusion  that  recaps   ideas  introduced  in  the   paper.  

Paper  has  a  conclusion   that  recaps  some  of  the   ideas  introduced  in  the   paper.  

Paper  has  a  conclusion   that  has  attempted  to   recap  the  ideas   introduced  in  the  paper.  

Paper  has  no  conclusion   to  recap  the  ideas   introduced  in  the  paper.