Hansen W131 Grading Sheet /Trend Analysis

Total: 200 points

Thesis: Is your thesis an analytical claim about the trend you have chosen that provides work for the paper to do, and that sets out an idea worth pursuing? (10)

Introduction: Did you introduce the subject/trend and explain why it is relevant? Does your introduction provide necessary background or context? Have you proven that the trend in fact exists and established your paper topic as a trend? (20)

Analysis/Critical Reading of Trend: Do you provide a deeper understanding of the trend than a casual observer would have? Have you spent a significant amount of the paper analyzing the possible meanings of the trend and speculated about its possible causes and the conditions that enabled it to occur and continue? Have you analyzed and discussed the significance and implications of the trend on modern culture/society? (In other words, you have not devoted a disproportionate amount of your paper to proving the trend exists) Are your paragraphs fully developed and cohesive? Have you created topic sentences that set up claims/interpretations that you want to make and prove about the particular trend? (100)

Sources: sources are well-integrated into your paper, not dumped. They are included as part of the conversation about the trend established in the analysis. Sources are analyzed (developed, modified, or applied), not simply used to prove a point and each source is used within its proper context (that is, you haven’t misrepresented the source or used it out of context to try to make it prove your point). You have used all seven sources. (25)

Conclusion: Does it grow from your analysis? Does it move beyond simply restating and summarizing what you have said in your paper? Is it merely tacked on? Trite? Do you set out the larger significance or implications of what you have discovered in your analysis of the trend? (15)

Readability: Do sentence structure, word choice, transitions, style, spelling, punctuation, quotation, and in- text citation contribute to or interfere with communication of your ideas? Are you using attributive tags to distinguish the ideas of authors from your own ideas? (15)

Works Cited/ Works cited page follows MLA format: (15)