Essay Exam For my Music class

Short Essay Grading Rubric (25 points each question)

Grading Criteria: 1. Describes specific characteristics of music performances and genre styles

comprehensively, clearly, and precisely, using appropriate vocabulary. 2. Focuses on details and concepts relevant to the question and chosen examples(s), creating

a defensible argument. 3. Shows consideration for historical and social context in interpreting examples.

1. Connects musical characteristics with historical social influences 4. Writes directly and concisely, with a sense of organization, leading the reader through a

description or argument leading from the general to the more precise (or vice versa). 1. Avoids hyperbole, exaggeration, or over-generalization 2. Avoids grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors

100% = 25 = A+: Shows outstanding effort and results in achieving all of the criteria, producing a paper that is among the best in the class.

96% = 24 = A: Shows excellent effort and results in meeting all of the criteria, and substantially achieves those goals.

92% = 23 = A-: Shows excellent effort in meeting all of the criteria, and meets most (but not all) of those goals.

88% = 22 = B+: Shows very good effort and results meeting the criteria, but one or two categories lags somewhat behind the others.

84% = 21 = B: Shows good, but not exceptional, effort and results in meeting the criteria, and several categories lag somewhat below expectations.

80% = 20 = B-: Shows some effort to meet the criteria, but achieves those goals in only one or two categories.

76% = 19 = C+: Shows only sporadic effort to meet the criteria, achieving inconsistent and only satisfactory results in most categories.

72% = 18 = C: Shows only minimal effort to meet the criteria of the assignment, falling below expectations in most or all categories.

68% = 17 = C-: Shows only minimal effort to meet the criteria of the assignment, falling significantly below expectations in most or all categories.

64% = 16 = D: Demonstrates a notable lack of effort in all of the four categories listed above, but nonetheless manages to produce a passing result.