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In your choice of how and what to argue related to the essay you’re covering, have you been true to the original, and also true to you?

Rubric for “Covering an Essay” Paper


Regarding the Cover Itself—

(1) In your choice of how and what to argue related to the essay you’re covering, have you been true to the original, and also true to you?

(2) Have you employed elements of the original’s rhetoric? In other words, have you used rhetorical devices and strategies that come from the original essay?

(3) Are you intentionally using these various elements of rhetoric with awareness of what you’re copying, combining, and transforming? Are you aware of their effects in this new writing situation? 

(4) Does your argument go beyond the obvious?

(5) Have you written a paper with minimal proofreading errors, and have you reached the length requirement?


Regarding the Explanation—

(1) Is it clear what your main idea was for how you approached the cover? In other words, have you explained how you wanted to rhetorically shift the argument from the original essay to your cover version, and why you felt that your approach was both true to the original, and also true to you? Something like that should be your thesis. 

(2) Have you referred to specific and compelling examples in your cover that made it work? 

(3) Have you done at least 1 of the following;

a. Discussed rhetorical devices you used and ignored from the original, and why you used or ignored them? 

b. Discussed who you are in relation to your argument, versus who the original writer was in relation to their argument? And why this mattered?

c. Discussed what you’ve changed or borrowed structurally from the original essay to your cover and why? 

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(4) Do you understand what was most at issue in covering this particular essay, and have you addressed this directly in your explanation?

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