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Exceeds Expectations

Demonstrate a conscious and thorough understanding of the writing prompt and the subject matter. This reflection can be used as an example for other students.

Meets Expectations

Demonstrate a thoughtful understanding of the writing prompt and the subject matter.

Approaches Expectations

Demonstrate a basic understanding of the writing prompt and the subject matter.

Needs Improvement

Demonstrate a limited understanding of the writing prompt and subject matter. This reflection needs revision.

Does not meet expectations

Demonstrate little or no understanding of the writing prompt and subject matter. This reflection needs revision.

Exceeds Expectations

Use specific and convincing examples from the texts studied to support claims in your own writing, making insightful and applicable connections between texts.

Meets Expectations

Use relevant examples from the texts studied to support claims in your own writing, making applicable connections between texts.

Approaches Expectations

Use examples from the text to support most claims in your writing with some connections made between texts.

Needs Improvement

Use incomplete or vaguely developed examples to only partially support claims with no connections made between texts.

Does not meet expectations

No examples from the text are used and claims made in your own writing are unsupported and irrelevant to the topic at hand.

Exceeds Expectations

Use stylistically sophisticated language that is precise and engaging, with notable sense of voice, awareness of audience and purpose, and varied sentence structure.

Meets Expectations

Use language that is fluent and original, with evident a sense of voice, awareness of audience and purpose, and the ability to vary sentence structure.

Approaches Expectations

Use basic but appropriate language, with a basic sense of voice, some awareness of audience and purpose and some attempt to vary sentence structure.

Needs Improvement

Use language that is vague or imprecise for the audience or purpose, with little sense of voice, and a limited awareness of how to vary sentence structure.

Does not meet expectations

Use language that is unsuitable for the audience and purpose, with little or no awareness of sentence structure.

Exceeds Expectations

Demonstrate control of the conventions with essentially no errors, even with sophisticated language.

Meets Expectations

Demonstrate control of the conventions, exhibiting occasional errors only when using sophisticated language.

Approaches Expectations

Demonstrate partial control of the conventions, exhibiting occasional errors that do not hinder comprehension.

Needs Improvement

Demonstrate limited control of the conventions, exhibiting frequent errors that make comprehension difficult.

Does not meet expectations

Demonstrate little or no control of the conventions, making comprehension almost impossible.

Exceeds Expectations

Demonstrate control of APA formatting throughout the paper with essentially no errors.

Meets Expectations

Demonstrate control of APA formatting, exhibiting occasional errors only when using complicated or unique citations or other elements.

Approaches Expectations

Demonstrate partial control of APA formatting, exhibiting occasional errors that do not violate intellectual property guidelines or that would indicate plagiarism.

Needs Improvement

Demonstrate limited control of APA formatting, exhibiting frequent errors that make an assertion of plagiarism possible or that interfere with the visual presentation of the paper.

Does not meet expectations

Demonstrate little or no control of APA formatting or uses an alternate style such as MLA.