8/18/2019 Rubric Term Paper Ver 1.0 - MSc IT

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4 (Excellent) 3 (Good) 2 (Satisfactory) 1 (Poor) 0 (Missing or noshow or plagiarism)

Identification of issues Very clear with signification justification and 3 or moreissues identified OR able todiscuss issues in a broadercontext OR able to presentoriginal issues.

Able to identify issues withminimum evidence tosupport and 3 issuesidentified.

Acceptable issuesidentification but lack ofevidence to support and 2issues identified.

Vague issues identification andless than 2 issues identified.

Missing or no showor plagiarism.

2 8

Analyze the issues/criticalthinking

Comprehensive analysis.(Uses evidence appropriatelyand sufficiently, providingsufficient evidence andexplaination t o convince)

Good analysis of the issues.(Supported with variouskind of evidence. Interpretevidence and connectevidence and main idea)

Sufficient analysis of theissues. (Depend onunsupported opinion orassume that evidencespeak for itself.lapse inlogic)

Vague analysis. (Usesirrelevant detail and lack ofsupporting evidence)

Missing or no showor plagiarism.

3 12

Organization and Coherence Excellent coherence of ideas.(Have a chain of reasoning or

progression of ideas)

Good coherence of ideas.(Have a logical progressionof ideas)

Some coherence of ideas. No coherence of ideas. Missing or no showor plagiarism.

2 8

Presentation and style Excellent presentation.(Precise words, sentencestructured, and focus.almostentirely free of spelling,

punctuation andgrammatical error)

Good presentation.(Accurate words,clearsentence, may haveawkward or ineffectivesentences.contain a fewgrammatical errors)

Moderate presentation.(relatively vague andgeneral words,inappropriate language,wordy sentences,unfocused, repetitive orconfusing.contain severalgrammatical errors)

Poor presentation.(Vague,ungrammaticalsentences, monotonoussentence structured. Manygrammatical errors and a fewmajor grammatical errors)

Missing or no showor plagiarism.

1 4

Reference, citation and format Sufficient, substantial andcurrent reference, citation

from reliable and crediblesources. Follow theprescribed format.

Sufficient reference, withreliable citations. Follow

and comply withprescribed format.

Sufficient reference withsome reliable citations

and a few missingcitations.

Poor reference with unreliablesources and missing citations.

Missing or no showor plagiarism.

2 8

Total Marks 40

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