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Introduction to College Reading and Writing

Writing Assignment
Write a one-paragraph response that reflects a personal opinion of the reading.

This assignment asks you to combine all you know about identifying the specifics of a
reading, responding to that reading in a thoughtful, well-organized manner, and
supporting your opinions with facts as you create a one-paragraph response that
expresses your ideas about “The Penny Debate.” You will have the chance to express
your opinions and the evidence that supports them through the construction of solid
sentences that apply what you know about subjects and verbs, propositional phrases,
and end punctuation. You will then get to explore the revising process in the Writing
Center before you submit your final draft.

The grading rubric below will help you develop your paper.
Rubric
Your response will be graded using five separate categories: the Introductory Sentence,
Topic Sentence, the Supporting Ideas, the Concluding Sentence, and overall use of
Grammar and Mechanics. Each of these five items will be rated as Proficient,
Developing, or Needs Improvement.

Proficient means that you have met the standards of an effective response. Developing
means you have partially met the standards of a response, but it needs some revision.
Needs Improvement means you did not meet the standards of a response.

RESPONSE PARAGRAPH
Proficient Developing Needs
Improvement
Introductory Clearly states the States some Does not include
Sentence title, topic, author, information about information about or
and author’s the reading and ideas from the
purpose expressed partially identifies reading.
in the reading. the topic.
Topic Sentence Clearly states your States an opinion of Does not include an
opinion of the issue the issue, but it’s opinion of the issue
expressed in the not clear if it’s yours expressed in the
reading. or the author’s. reading.
Supporting Ideas Uses examples and Partially uses Does not develop or
further develops a examples and provide examples
personal opinion of develops support for a personal
the reading’s issue. for a personal opinion.
opinion.
Concluding Clearly makes a Attempts to wrap-up No concluding
Sentence final, interesting the issue with a sentence is present.
statement on the moderately
issue. interesting final
statement.
Grammar & Paragraph contains Paragraph contains A lack of editing
Punctuation sentences with some subject-verb distracts the reader,
correct subject-verb issues and/or some making the
agreement and has prepositional phrase paragraph feel like a
few or no and end rough draft.
prepositional punctuation
phrases or end problems.
punctuation errors.

Developed by The NROC Project. Copyright ©2014 Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

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