You are now ready to complete the long essay portion of this assignment. You will complete a five paragraph essay on the following prompt:
- At this point in your life, what are you actively doing to ensure your life path does not mirror those featured in Ehrenreich's book? Consider how education and opportunity are aligned and your access to opportunities. Connect these ideas with information from your Budget spreadsheet. Provide specific evidence to support your assertions.
A successful essay will include
- a context-setting introduction
- an identifiable, properly placed thesis statement
- three well-developed body paragraphs that connect to the thesis statement
- evidence to support assertions
- a strong concluding paragraph that restates the thesis
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Accomplished Writer
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Proficient Writer
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Satisfactory Writer
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Developing Writer
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Basic Writer
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Ideas and insights on a limited topic
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Offers a fresh take, full of compelling ideas or insights, on a topic that is limited to what is manageable in a five paragraph essay
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Offers logically consistent and sometimes fresh and intriguing ideas or insights on a sufficiently limited topic manageable in a five paragraph essay
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Offers ideas on a topic but the ideas and insights are not particularly fresh or intriguing; the topic may not be sufficiently narrowed for a five paragraph essay
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Offers few ideas or insights on a topic; the topic is probably ill-defined and inappropriately large for a five paragraph essay
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May or may not have a discernible topic; if it does, the topic is probably impossibly large for a five paragraph essay
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Organization
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Is organized so that the connection between each paragraph and the thesis is made transparent, and so that the essay progresses logically and with a sense of inevitability toward its conclusion, which seems fully justified and accounted for by what has come before.
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Is organized so that each paragraph relates clearly to the thesis and so that the essay moves logically toward a conclusion, which follows from what went before.
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Is not always coherently organized; it may not be clear how each paragraph relates to the thesis; the essay moves, perhaps in rambling fashion, toward a conclusion, which may not fully follow from what has gone before.
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Is incoherently organized; may ramble or contain distracting digressions; may or may not have a conclusion. Does not have a clear thesis statement.
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Is lacking in any clear pattern of organization.
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Development
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Is developed with strong and continuous attention to specific detail and in a manner that examines a topic fully and convincingly.
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Is developed with continuous attention to specific detail and in a manner that sufficiently covers a topic.
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Is insufficiently developed; detail is often non-specific; does not do justice to the topic.
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Is notably under-developed; most details are non-specific
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Is extremely under-developed; all or most details are non-specific.
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Grammar, punctuation, and spelling
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Is largely free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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May contain a few errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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Contains a number of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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Contains numerous serious errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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Contains numerous and frequent errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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