Revolutions Research Paper - Task With Rubric

Partners:__________________Class:____Due:4/20/2009 Research Paper: Political Revolutions Directions: Write a well-organized research paper that includes an introduction, several paragraphs, and a conclusion. Use evidence from at least four sources in your paper. Support your response with relevant facts, examples, and details. Include additional outside information. Historical Context: Throughout history, people have come together to change how they are governed or ruled. Whether they fought against their Imperial powers or with factions inside of their country, their collective effort revolutionized history. Five of these instances are the Dominican, Chinese, Russian, Haitian and Iranian Revolutions. Task: Using the information from your research sources and your knowledge of global history, write a research paper in which you - Describe the historical period during your revolution - Describe the contributing causes to the revolution - Discuss the short and long-term effects of the revolution Guidelines: In your research paper, be sure to -Develop all aspects of the tasks -Incorporate information from at least four sources -Incorporate relevant outside information -Support the theme with relevant facts, examples and details -Use a logical and clear plan of organization, including an introduction and a conclusion that are beyond a restatement of the theme

Writing Project Rubric: Revolutions Research Paper Category Advanced Intermediate Beginner (3) (2) (1)

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Content and Comprehension

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Writing Conventions

The paper uses at least 4 sources that are reliable and cited properly. The information is summarized or paraphrased in the paper.

The information is summarized or paraphrased in the paper, however there are less than 4 reliable sources cited and used in the paper.

The information is copied directly from the sources. OR There is no sources cited. OR The sources are only from books or only from the Internet. The writing The writing has ideas The writing demonstrates well- and evidence taken demonstrates only developed ideas from the content, but a minimal and uses evidence may be lacking in understanding of to support those clarity, support or the content or ideas based on comprehensible does not base its relevant content. output. support on evidence. The writing is The writing has There is no organized into paragraph structure, paragraph distinct paragraphs but does not focus on structure and no that focus on key key ideas. Minimal transitions ideas, using transitions are present between ideas or transitions in the writing. evidence. appropriate to the student. The writing uses There are several There are many sentences that are run-ons or run-ons or appropriate to the fragmented sentences fragmented student’s level. in the writing. The sentences in the The grammar is grammar uses only writing. The presentable and it simple forms and grammar is uses accurate some vocab is unpresentable and vocab. inaccurate. vocab is often inaccurate. Capital letters and Capital letters and There is no punctuation are punctuation are demonstration of used at the sometimes used, or capital letters or beginning and end the spelling is only punctuation. The of sentences. The accurate in high spelling is spelling is often frequency words. phonetic or accurate. invented.