Rubric for Checking Position Paper

 

Please review your own paper.

Ask a friend to check your paper under this rubric, as well.

 

What is the essential question? Where in the paper is found (page and paragraph)?

 

 

Identify three or four important historical facts about the question. Where can these facts be found in your paper?

 

 

Identify two or more responses to the question. Where can a discussion of these responses be found in your paper?

 

 

What is your position? Where is it stated in your paper?

 

 

List the evidence you have to support your position. Where is this evidence discussed in your paper?

 

 

What mode of ethical reasoning have you employed? Is it stated or inferred? Where?

 

 

Are there implications for the possible outcomes of this debate? Where in your paper are these implications discussed?

 

 

Are your sources cited? Are they cited properly? Are they scholarly? How were they found?