Grade Guide: Comparison Essay - 100 points
A comparison/contrast essay analysis the items of two or more and looks for the similarities and differences between them. Choose two real collisions (such as bumper cars, boating crash, or Dale Earnhart accident)
Introduction
Effective Thesis Statement, attention getter, and identification of items to be compared/contrasted. Define elasticity/inelacticity and explain their roles in collisions. (10 points)
Body
Paragraph #1,
Good Topic Sentence and Sufficient Examples (10 points)
Paragraph #2,
Good Topic Sentence and Sufficient Examples (10 points)
Paragraph #3 Cause or effect number three
Good Topic Sentence and Sufficient Examples (10 points)
Transitions: Between paragraphs and inside paragraph (10 points)
Conclusion
Wraps up ideas, draws conclusion, or delivers message (10 points)
Grammar and Sentence Structure (minus one point per error)
No homonym, noun, verb, pronoun, subject/verb agreement, or sentence combining errors. No sentences started with “There “
Good prewrite including chart (10 points)
Good editing from draft to final (10 points)
Well-prepared for Conference (10 points)
Works cited page and in-text citation (10 points)