Argumentative Writing Rubric (used in ENGL 110)


(23 January 2008)

Over the past two years, the English Department has revised the foundational writing course, ENGL 110, into and argumentative writing course, which more effectively supports the work being done in the other two foundational communication courses, CATA 101 and ILA.  The new course also complements the sort of argument-based writing done in many other places in our curriculum.

With the change in the course also comes a change in objectives for writing, illustrated in the new ENGL 110 Argumentative Writing Rubric. 

(Resources for the new ENGL 110 textbook, Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments, are also available.)

You can use this rubric to see what's being emphasized in writing in ENGL 110 (like thesis, reasons and explanations, evidence, organization, and grammar/mechanics/style), and you can help make these  connections with your own course clear to students. 

You can also adapt this rubric for use with argument-based writing in your own courses.

If you have questions about what's being done in ENGL 110, or about how to make connections with the writing course and your own courses, please contact Kevin Roberts, ENGL 110 Coordinator, or Steve Price, CAC Director.