Emerging: meets few rubric standards, lacks clear thought, is underdeveloped and has stylistic problems.

Developing: meets some or most rubric standards, may be underdeveloped and have simplistic style.

Proficient: meets rubric standards. Shows thought and analysis and has interesting and smooth style.

Excellent: exceeds rubric standards; shows mature thought and analysis and has interesting and engaging style.

• Offers a clear statement of theme as thesis of paper in an introduction paragraph that captures attention and leads to the thesis.
• Has identifiable introduction and clearly sequenced body paragraphs that are connected with transition and internal summary.
• Offers in each body paragraph a clear topic related to the major thesis.
• Uses specific examples, concrete detail and quotes from the text with explanatory commentary to show how the chosen theme is developed by the whole book or a significant part of the book.
• Integrates quotations smoothly with signal phrasing.
• Offers a conclusion that is not a summary but comments on the thesis and finalizes the paper.

• Maintains focus set by the thesis.
• Has objective voice and appropriate tone.
• Uses complete sentences and correct and varied sentence structure.
• Has a precise and varied vocabulary and follows guidelines for clarity.
• Follows English department format.
• Has few errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage.

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