Bowen, Alan

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Name: Alan Bowen

Major: Sports Management

Something About Me: I play football.

Alan Bowen's Close Reading Paper

Rubric Activity

Let's start by building a rubric together:

	Excellent	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory	Comments
Thesis	Clear and concise. One sentence. Map the entire paper. MAKES AN ARGUMENT	Spread into two sentences. Guiding idea.	Vague or missing. Makes a truth statement rather than an argument.
Evidence (from text)	Uses clear evidence: quotes and paraphrases (and citations). And decides WISELY which to use.		No clear evidence (vague references to the text).
Analysis	Close reading that finds deeper meaning in teh text (used as evidence). Analysis is the majority of the paper. All supports the thesis.	Has one sentence of analysis for every quote.	Summarizes.

The structure of a close reading should look something like this:

Introduction (introduce the text and the topic).

THESIS (make an ARGUMENT that will be supported by the evidence and analysis in your close reading).

Body Paragraphs:

Topic sentence (relates to one point in the thesis).
Evidence from the text (this should be a PARAPHRASE in your words UNLESS you are looking at specific WORDS or PHRASES from the text). Both paraphrase and direct quotes should be cited MLA style.
Analysis (Why is this text significant? What does this evidence mean?) The analysis should support the argument announced in your thesis.

Conclusion:

Wrap it up and bring it back around to your thesis.

faith and Healing

Satisfactory (B-C)	Developing (D – F)	Comments
Organization (10)	Clear statement of purpose about the primary text and artifact. Strong relationship between statement of purpose and all material presented. Clear and engaging online format that others could access without aid.	Includes some statement of purpose. Some relationship between text, artifact and all parts of project. Material available in online format.	Lacks clear statement of purpose. Lacks clear relationship between text, artifact and all parts of project. Material does not utilize online resources effectively.
Argument (40)	Argument rests upon close reading of BOTH a primary text and an artifact. Close reading develops a single theme uniting the primary text and artifact. Statement of purpose supported with clear and convincing evidence. Strong use of context to support close reading. Argument presented in a created and engaging fashion.	Makes some argument or statement about the primary text and artifact. Identifies some context for this argument. Uses some evidence to support claims.	Does not make a clear argument about a theme or idea in the primary text and artifact.. Does not support claims with clear evidence.
Text (10)	Includes text and text elements that clearly and succinctly support all parts of the thesis. Text eleme	Includes text elements. Text is related to definition of a word. Text ma	Text elements not present or not properly formatted for online presentation.