PHIL1310: Exploring the Causes of a Recent Event Essay
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Assignment 6.1: Exploring the Causes of a Recent Event
- Due Jan 19 by 9:59pm
- Points 90
- Submitting a text entry box or a file upload
- Available Dec 29, 2019 at 10pm – Jan 19 at 9:59pm 21 days
Description
Students will create the third part of their research manuscript.
Objectives
- Form new concepts by generalizing and interpreting.
Instructions
- Research and discuss an event related to your research topic that occurred in the last three years. What was the event? What impact has it had on your topic? What has occurred since the event happened? The paper should follow the paper guidelines and be 500-750 words.
- Make sure to apply the information found in your lectures and readings.
Assignment Submission
- The use of outside resources is strongly recommended and all papers must be cited and written in APA format.
- Once you have completed the assignment, click the Submit Assignment option in the menu to the right and select a format for submitting your assignment.
- Click the Submit Assignment button when you are ready.
Rubric
Writing Assignments Rubric_2017
Writing Assignments Rubric_2017
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Assignment Ideas
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18.0 pts Ideas are clear, insightful, thought-provoking, and focused so that they consistently support the topic, thesis and audience for the paper. |
15.0 pts Ideas are clear and focused to support the topic and a clearly-stated central idea, but are not consistently insightful or thought-provoking. |
12.0 pts Ideas are clear but conventional or general, and support the topic, thesis, and audience for the paper. |
9.0 pts Ideas are unclear or clichéd and demonstrate a lack of focus in support of the topic or a central idea, which may be vague or missing. |
18.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Assignment Development
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18.0 pts Development is fresh, with abundant details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific and insightful evidence in support of sound logic. |
15.0 pts Development is adequate, but may lack depth, with details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific evidence in support of sound logic. |
12.0 pts Development is sufficient but general, providing adequate but perhaps not interesting details, examples, and evidence that include no logical fallacies or unsupported claims. |
9.0 pts Development is insufficient, providing scarce or inappropriate details, evidence, and examples that may include logical fallacies or unsupported claims. |
18.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Organization
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18.0 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the papers purpose/ plan and consistently demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs. |
15.0 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the papers purpose/ plan and usually demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs |
12.0 pts Organization is coherent and unified overall in support of the essays purpose/ plan, but is ineffective at times and may demonstrate abrupt or weak transitions between ideas or paragraphs. |
9.0 pts Organization is confused and fragmented in support of the essays purpose/ plan and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability. |
18.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Style & Mechanics
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18.0 pts Readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, precise word choice and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Mastery of style) |
15.0 pts Style is readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, effective word choice, and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Effective style) |
12.0 pts Style is readable, but unremarkable in tone, sometimes including a lack of sentence variety effective word choice, or some distracting, but not serious, errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Readable but inconsistent style) |
9.0 pts Style is incoherent or inappropriate in tone, including a lack of sentence variety, ineffective or inappropriate word choice, and serious errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Ineffective style) |
18.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Format
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18.0 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works expertly to support the essays purpose/plan. |
15.0 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works generally to support the essays purpose/plan. |
12.0 pts Format is mostly correct, meets critical aspects of assignment directions, and works mostly to support the essays purpose/ plan. |
9.0 pts Format is faulty, does not meet sufficient aspects of the assignment direction, and does not support the essays purpose/ plan. |
18.0 pts
Total Points: 90.0
