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| Skeptical readers who, like apanel of jurors, will make up their minds after reading your evidences as to the valididity of your argument |
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| Paragraphs between the introduction and the concluson that contain a topic sentence, evidence and commentary on that evidence |
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| Reflective and independent thinking, demonstrates clear and rational response to texts and discussions. |
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| Evidence and commentary that convincingly support central claims. Skimpy, three sentence paragraphs are avoided and key, complex ideas are given adequate space for explanation (not mentioned only briefly). The argument and critical thinking are logical and believable. |
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| Facts, statistics, examples, illustrations, textual quotations that support your essay’s central claim. |
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| Improvements to a rough draft’s focus, purpose, argument, organization, evidence, content and overall strategy |
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| Proper spelling and grammar usage |
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| A claim that is often emotional or personal (pet peeves for example) in nature and that is not supported with credible evidence. |
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| To maintain an essay’s focus, these key words are repeated throughout. |
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| Words or phrases that clarify the relationships between sentences and paragraphs by identifying the logical organizing principles. For example “furthermore, thus, in addition, consequently…” |
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| This sentence occurs in the introduction after the essay’s thesis and lists the essay’s main ideas in the order they will appear in the body paragraphs. |
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| The most common are the comma, the semicolon, the period, the apostrophe, quotation marks and the question mark. |
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| A one sentence summary of the paragraph’s main point that acts as a signpost in two directions: backward toward the thesis of the essay and forward toward the body of the paragraph. |
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| credible, valid claim supported by strong, college-level (often expert) support |
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| The grammatical error that occurs when joining two complete sentences using a comma rather than FANBOYS or a semicolon. |
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| The strong controlling idea of your essay that is supported by evidence. |
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