Writing Style and Scholarly Effort: All your written work for this course should be carefully edited before submission. Your papers should be well organized, free of grammatical errors, thoughtful, and give evidence of scholarly work (i.e., professional and scientific journal articles and books). When you cite other writers, APA-style (latest edition) should be used in the citations and reference list. The papers should have a cover sheet. Please use the following rubric for understanding how your papers will be graded:

PERFORMANCE ELEMENT	UNACCEPTABLE	ACCEPTABLE	EXCELLENT	SCORE
Literature Support	1. Absence of literature support for ideas and opinions. 2. Lacks knowledge of counter-evidence and literature. 3. Argumentative, reactionary, defensive; limited awareness of audience and purpose.	1. Paper refers to few literary sources to support ideas. 2. Minimal knowledge of counter-evidence. 3. Attempts to establish purpose.	1. Ideas, facts, and opinions supported by scholarly literature. 2. Displays substantive knowledge of alternative views and counter-evidence to ideas. 3. Maintains clear focus; evidence of distinctive voice and/or appropriate professional tone.
Development of Argument	1. Ideas not supported by details. 2. No evidence of analytical thinking, reflection or insight. 3. Only one perspective presented on the issue.	1. Ideas loosely supported. 2. Minimal idea development; repetitious details. 3. Dichotomous, two-part, “either-or” thinking.	1. Ideas supported by details. 2. Evidence of analysis, reflection and insight. 3. Multiple perspectives on the issues.
Grammatical Structure; Language	1. Several errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization. 2. Incorrect and/or ineffective word usage and phrasing, lack of sentence structure. 3. No paragraph development or transitions.	1. Few grammatical errors. 2. Some simplistic language, awkward sentence structure. 3. Some paragraph development.	1. No grammatical errors. 2. Precise, rich language, variety of sentence structure & length. 3. Well-developed paragraphs; clear transitions and logical flow.
APA Style Formatting	1. Numerous errors in citations within the text body and reference list. 2. Lack of citations (plagiarism). 3. No cover; no running head. 4. No attempt at APA style formatting.	1. Few errors in citations. 2. Cover page, running head, numbering with few errors. 3. Attempts APA style formatting.	1. Proper citation within the text body and reference list. 2. Proper cover page and running head. 4. Scholarly writing in APA-style.
Grade	C-F	B	A	??