10/4/22, 8:29 AM Week Four: Assignment. Signature Paper – HCA400 Foundations of HC Leadership – National University

Assignment Rubric

Course:

Criteria Purpose	Outstanding2 points	Commendable1.5 points	Acceptable1 point	Marginal0.5 points	Criterion Score
	The writer’s central purpose or argument is readily apparent to the reader; clear thesis sentence.	The writing has a clear purpose or argument, but may sometimes digress from it.	The central purpose or argument is not consistently clear throughout the paper	The purpose or argument is generally unclear.	/ 2
Content	Balanced	Information	The	A central	/ 2
	presentation of	provides	information	purpose or
	relevant and	reasonable	supports a	argument is
	legitimate	support for a	central	not clearly
	information	central	purpose or	identified.
	that clearly	purpose or	argument at	Analysis is
	supports a	argument and	times, but	vague or not
	central	displays	often strays	evident.
	purpose or	evidence of a	from purpose.
	argument and	basic analysis	Analysis is
	shows a	of a	basic or
	thoughtful, in-	significant	general.
	depth	topic.
	analysis of a
	significant
	topic; content
	is specific,
	accurate,
	interesting and
	appropriate.

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10/4/22, 8:29 AM Week Four: Assignment. Signature Paper – HCA400 Foundations of HC Leadership – National University

Criteria	Outstanding2 points	Commendable1.5 points	Acceptable1 point	Marginal0.5 points	Criterion Score
Organization	The ideas are	The ideas are	In general, the	The writing is	/ 2
	arranged	arranged	writing is	not
	logically to	logically to	arranged	logically
	support the	support the	logically,	organized.
	purpose or	central	although	Frequently,
	argument.	purpose or	occasionally	ideas fail
	Ideas flow	argument.	ideas fail to	to make sense
	smoothly from	Ideas are	make sense	together. The
	one to another	usually clearly	together. The	reader cannot
	and are clearly	linked	reader is fairly	identify a line
	linked	to each other.	clear about	of reasoning
	to each other.	For the most	what the	and loses
	The	part, the	writer intends.	interest.
	reader can	reader can
	follow the	follow the line
	line of	of reasoning
	reasoning.
APA	APA format is	APA format is	There are	Format of the	/ 2
Formatting	used	used	frequent	document is
and	accurately and	with minor	errors in APA	not
References	consistently in	errors;	format.	recognizable as
	the paper and	follows APA		APA.
	on the	guidelines with
	“References”	regard
	section;	to mechanics,
	follows APA	sentence
	guidelines with	structure, and
	regard to	word choice
	mechanics,	with few minor
	sentence	errors.
	structure, and
	word
	choice.

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10/4/22, 8:29 AM Week Four: Assignment. Signature Paper – HCA400 Foundations of HC Leadership – National University

Criteria	Outstanding2 points	Commendable1.5 points	Acceptable1 point	Marginal0.5 points	Criterion Score
Grammar and	All grammar	Only one or	A few grammar	Very frequent	/ 2
Spelling	and	two errors in	and/or spelling	grammar and-
	spelling are	spelling/gramm	errors.	or spelling
	correct.	ar.		errors.

Overall Score

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