Side Trip Assignment 2A - Summary/Analysis Essay
Side Trip Assignment 2A - Summary/Analysis Essay
Scoring Criteria
(60 mileage points)
  1. Submission is correctly titled [For correct title, see "Side Trip Assignment 2A" instructions under "How do I submit this assignment?"] (3 mileage points):

  2. Submission correctly uses MLA paper format (3 mileage points):

  3. Essay contains an introduction that clearly identifies the Web site being analyzed and announces your conclusion regarding the Web site's overall credibility (6 mileage points):

  4. Essay contains a paragraph summarizing the main ideas in the Web site (thesis and main points) (6 mileage points):

  5. Essay contains several paragraphs analyzing various components of the Web site, each of which

    • clearly identifies and describes the component being analyzed (author background, "publisher" background, author's development of ideas, author's use of evidence, author's writing style, other aspects of the Web site, etc.) (7 mileage points):

    • provides specific examples from the Web site (7 mileage points):

    • explains how the credibility of each component affects the Web site's overall credibility (7 mileage points):

  6. Essay contains a conclusion that briefly reviews how the credibility of each component affects the Web site's overall credibility (6 mileage points):

  7. Essay is clearly structured (3 mileage points):

  8. Language in the essay is clearly and grammatically worded (3 mileage points):

  9. Language in the essay is correctly spelled (3 mileage points):

  10. Language in the essay is correctly punctuated (3 mileage points):

  11. Items on the Works Cited page are in proper MLA documentation format (3 mileage points):

TOTAL MILEAGE POINTS FOR SIDE TRIP ASSIGNMENT 2A (OUT OF 60 POSSIBLE):


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