RTTP Writing Rubric
| Outstanding | Exceeds Expectations | Acceptable | Poor | Dreadful |
Effort | Your writing was submitted before the deadline and perfectly matched the requested format. | Your writing was submitted before the deadline but did not quite match the requested format. | Your writing was submitted within 24 hours of the deadline or had multiple errors with the format. | Your writing was over 24 hours late. | Your writing was not submitted until the instructor asked for it. |
Claim | You make a powerful claim that is both obvious to the reader and well-situated in the opening of the piece. | You make a clear and concise claim in the first or second paragraph. | You make a claim in the first or second paragraph but it is not clear and concise. | You make a claim, but it is difficult for the reader to find it within the paper. | Your claim is unclear to the reader. |
Organization | Your writing has a compelling opening, an informative middle, and a satisfying conclusion. | Your opening outlines the points you make in the middle of the paper. You also summarize these in the conclusion. | Your writing has a beginning, a middle, and end. However, you don’t really outline your points early on or summarize them at the end. | Your writing is somewhat organized but sometimes gets off topic. | Your writing is aimless and disorganized. |
Arguments | You give clear reasons in support of your claim, discuss the reasons against your claim, and explain why it is valid anyway. | You give reasons both for and against your claim, but overlook some important reasons and/or don’t explain why the claim still stands. | You give reasons in support of your claim. You also say that there are reasons against the claim but don’t describe them adequately. | You give 1 or 2 weak reasons attempting to support your claim. However these are irrelevant and/or confusing. | You do not give any convincing reasons in support of your claim. |
Sources | You include multiple appropriate quotations from multiple assigned sources that strongly support your claim. | You include multiple appropriate quotations from at least one of the assigned sources to support your claim. | You included at least one appropriate quotation from one of the assigned readings to support your claim. | You included a quotation from the assigned readings, but it was marginally valuable in supporting your claim. | You did not include quotations from the assigned readings to support your claim. |
Accuracy | The facts in your paper are accurate within the context of the game and you include extra, real details from outside of the game. | The facts in your paper are accurate within the context of the game. | Your paper is mostly correct, but you was mistaken about at lease one fact. | You had notable misconceptions about some minor facts in your paper. | You had serious misconceptions about major facts in your paper. |
Originality | Your paper stands out as one of the most memorable in the class. | This paper presents some unique ideas and a fresh approach to the topic. | This paper presents a unique idea or approach to the topic beyond what was in the role sheet. | This paper is very similar to the other papers or the instructor-provided materials in its ideas and approach. | This paper could have been written by someone not taking this particular class. |
Voice | Your paper sounds like a realistic character that cares about this topic. | Your paper clearly has the appropriate voice of your character. | Your paper has the voice of your character. However, that character comes across as either too bland or too phony. | Your paper lacks a voice of your character or it is so weak as to be imperceptible. | Your writing is too informal. It appears that you did not take this assignment seriously. |
Sentences | Your sentences are clear, complete, and of varying lengths. | You have well-constructed sentences and appropriate punctuation. | The sentence structure is somewhat monotonous. | Your sentences are sometimes awkward with run-ons or fragments. | Many run-ons, fragments, and awkward phrasing make your essay hard to read. You use the same words over and over. |
Words | The words you use are vivid, meaningful, and appropriate. | You generally use correct spelling and routine word choices. | You word choice is often fine, but you have a few places where your word choice was inappropriate. | Your words are sometimes confusing or you have multiple spelling errors. | Numerous errors in word choice or spelling make your paper hard to read. |
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