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The essays that scored well had a thesis that took a defendable side and answered the prompt rather than restating it. In addition, evidence was integrated throughout the essay that helped support their side and added commentary by connecting their evidence back to the thesis and explaining its relevance. And finally it explained why the author integrated some rhetorical choices.

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These essays scored low as they failed to answer the prompt by taking a defensible position and analyzing the author's rhetorical choices. These essays also lacked evidence that was relevant to the prompt, rather their evidence did not enhance nor defend their position. And they also didn't include any sophistication in their essay.

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One can create a checklist for what points they need to hit. As well as making a quick outline of the essay, including the examples you will use. This will help organize your thoughts and allow you to stay on track by not integrating unnecessary information into your essay.

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The essays that scored high all had a strong, specific thesis in their intro. They also included context and explained the SPACE parts of SPACECAT to set their essay up successfully. Because they had such a clear line of thought and a clear, specific thesis, they were able to earn points in their body paragraphs for explaining the author's rhetorical choices (CAT) AND still connecting back to the same main idea.

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Essays that did not get full points sometimes did start off strong and have a solid thesis. They were able to identify a number of rhetorical devices that were used in the speech, and they sometimes provided examples to show the rhetorical device in the speech. However, they did not provide commentary on the WHY and HOW these rhetorical devices were actually used by the speaker to make the audience think or feel a certain way.

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Highlight the choices the author uses in their writing/speaking and explain what those choices do for the overall piece. You should also be giving thorough and relevant commentary with these highlights. Strategic connections with the text will also strengthen your essay.

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Highlight the choices the author uses in their writing/speaking and explain what those choices do for the overall piece. You should also be giving thorough and relevant commentary with these highlights. Strategic connections with the text will also strengthen your essay. (anonymous response also written by me)

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The essays that scored well had a strong and specific thesis that was easy defendable. They also integrated evidence throughout their body paragraphs to support and connect to their thesis. They also showed examples of sophistication in their argument.

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These essays did not score well since they did not write a proper thesis that was defensible. The essays also did not give enough/any relevant evidence to the prompt. There was also an overall lack of sophistication.

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The low scoring essays did not start off with a strong, specific, and defendable thesis. Although they were able to give and defend examples in their essays they did not dive deeper and explain their HOW and WHY of their quotes. They also scored low because their conclusion did not prove that they had a complex understanding of the essay prompt. Their conclusion was rather broad and attempted to provide larger context.

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The essays that scored high all had a strong defensible thesis with powerful wording that stated which side they're on. They also had commentary that supported their evidence and elevated their argument. They tended to dig into the rhetorical choices from their evidence used, allowing for a broader perspective to be understood. The last thing that the high scoring essays had in common was that they had an adequate understanding of the topic - or a sophistication point, and were capable of displaying it.  - Tiffany N.

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The essays that scored high gave a defensible thesis, sufficient commentary alongside relevant evidence, and were written with sophistication.

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You can create an outline of your essay to ensure that you hit all of the important points and ideas to receive a good score. You can also highlight and annotate the authors/speakers work so you know what is important and don't add information that doesn't strengthen your argument. You can also develop your HOWs and WHYs of your examples ignorer to build a strong essay.

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The low scoring essays would often have a weak thesis that lacked any defense, often missing the target with the topic, alongside the wording. Their commentary would also fall flat as it would restate and explain their evidence, rather than add onto it and state their own views and opinions. The final thing that gave them low scores would be that they had no sophistication/understanding of the topic, opting to close their essay with flimsy words rather than digging into why it matters. - Tiffany N.

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Something I felt like that I did well on was my critical thinking along with the essay. I also felt very united with the topic. I would also say I successfully used arguments to defend myself.

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The essays that were scored well all were properly formatted and had no grammatical errors. They all also gave very clear examples in the speeches of rhetorical devices being utilized. Finally, I find all of them get straight to the point in their intro and introduce their writing well.

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Things you can do in order to make sure you do better for your rhetorical essay is to have a clear outline and understanding on how you want to present your topic. Asking for help and edits is also a major thing that elevates an essay as peers can offer their views and experiences that makes you see the topic in a different light. The last thing would be to always make sure that your commentary is genuinely your opinion rather than a restatement of the evidence provided. - Tiffany N

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I feel like I lacked my timing and preference with the essay. I think I could of spoke much more clearly on what I saying and I didn't stand on my point. I believe that I was also lacking with how I used my evidence to support myself.

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The essays that were scored lowly I found did not have as clear of examples and didn't do as good of ajatob at presenting them. They are too straight to the point and are almost robotic with how short the paragraphs are. Some very simple spelling and grammatiacl errors are also made.

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What I could have done was reread my work. I could have also been more organized with myself and my writing. I would also need some structural criticism.

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One of the most important things is to have a very good understanding of the topic because otherwise you'd churn out an essay that clearly shows you don't understand what you're talking about. It's also important to have no grammatical errors or spelling errors, you can reread your essay over to make sure this happens. It is finally very important to have an intro that grabs the reader's attention.

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These essays scored high as they interweave their defensible thesis and body paragraphs with the resources provided to them. The message and purpose of their papers were loud and clear. They used a multitude of rhetorical with a complex understanding of them.
-Yuliana S.

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Essays that scored high were able to provide a thesis that had a defined stance, with commentary that was relevant to the topic. The high scorers were also able to use words and phrases that provided a powerful 'punch' to their writing, allowing for strong emphasis. Lastly, high scorers were able to have a more open stance, as opposed to one that is highly biased towards one side with no room for discussion.

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Essays that scored low either lacked a large amount of evidence, or just didn't hit the criteria that was written in the rubric. In other words, they failed to answer the prompt correctly, and lacked evidence to support their thesis. The low scoring essays also lacked sophistication their their writing, and as such, they weren't able to provide a stronger argument.

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These essays were not able to properly explain and defend their thesis. They failed to connect evidence to their line of reasoning and are unable to flow from one response to another with a proper explanation.There is a limited amount of commentary that does little to explain the choices in evidence that the writer used. Another piece that was noted was the improper use and understand of rhetorical analysis.

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Something I could do to score well would be to practice writing a synthesis essay, as I lack the speed and the train of thought to correctly write one. Another would be to be less and less bias in my writing. Lastly, I would try my best to understand the prompt on a deeper level, which can allow me to provide a more in-depth interpretation of the prompt.

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The essays that scored high had not only had a good thesis but a thesis that they were able to defend. The SPACECAT was easy to point out, and readers were able to have a better understanding. The evidence used supported/connected to their own thesis.

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The essays that scored low didn't have a defendable or solid thesis, and the evidence or commentary didn't defend the thesis. They didn't use anything relevant to the topic. Also they failed to answer the prompt correctly.

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You can make sure your thesis is defendable by including the use of rhetorical choices and how it conveyed the message. Also include credible evidence that relates to the topic. Find out the main appeal.

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Something that you can do to raise your score establish if the work is informing, persuading or entertaining. Something else you can do is making sure you are making no mistakes in your writing. As well as trying to make sure you are making good connections with your sources.

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Some of the essays did bad because of their spelling and claim given about the topic. Another thing which gave them a low score is when they wouldn't go into detail about the evidence they gave to the audience and would go off topic. In addition to this they also were not able to give a proper answer to the topic.

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The high score essays did well in their grammar also in making sure that they made a understandable claim. Another thing they were able to do well in is making sure they provide details about the evidence they gave in their essay. They were also able to keep the essay strong by not going off topic.

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I would make sure my thesis is specific and that I have enough evidence to adequately support it. Sticking with a main point in all my paragraphs will help me get the most points from what I write. Organizing my body paragraphs by rhetorical choice helps a lot.

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The high scoring essays were able to use their SPACECAT annalysis in their essay very well. Also, their thesis was very good, and set up the rest of the essay very well. Their writting also all seemed to connect together very well and they made lots of sense.

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In the low scoring essays the thesis was very weak, so the rest of the essay had no guide.  These essays also seemed to have had very little effort put into them. Also, their evidence and commentary didn't really support the thesis, if they had one.

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To make sure I score well on my next rhetorical analysis essay, I can make sure to develope a good defensible and strong thesis. Also, I can make sure my evidence and good and my commentary makes sense and flows with the rest of the essay. Another thing I can do is make sure that I fully understand what the prompt is asking of me and what I have to answer, so that I answer the correct question and am not confused while writting the essay.

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The essays that scored a great score provided a good thesis and defend about the thesis also having commentary to the topic. The high scoring essay gave clear examples to their speeches and defend their evidence. The high scoring used sophistication as their examples to provide evidence to their arguments. -Jayden Te

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The essays that scored a low score did not provide enough evidence to the topic. The evidence and the commentary didn't have enough information to support the thesis. The essays was short did not provide enough information about the topic and didn't defend their evidence.-Jayden Te

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I would make my thesis more information and provide enough evidence to support my thesis. I would able to defend my thesis because to have information to make the thesis more sense into the topic. Lastly making sure that I don't have error because it won't make the reader interested instead reread the essay to add or correct the thesis.- Jayden Te

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The high-scoring essays had a defensible thesis that answered the prompt rather than restating it. They also did an excellent job at interpreting their SPACECAT in their writing. They also did a good job of explaining how their rhetorical choices were relevant to the article they read.

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The essays with a sucessful high score have a thesis that is defensible and related to the rhetorical choices. In the body paragraphs they have commentary that connects to their thesis while integrating evidence. The responses to the rhetorical choices are linked to the choices they made.

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The low-scoring essays failed to prompt a defensible thesis. They lacked evidence and commentary in their body paragraphs. Lastly, they failed to use SPACECAT.

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What I can do is reread my work. I could also, make sure I used my SPACECAT correctly. LAstly, i could memorize lots of rhetorical choices so i have multiple options on how to structure my essay.

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The essays with low scores are introduced with a weak thesis. The thesis is too short and not as defensible. They also have evidence that does not make connections to their thesis. There is no explanation or as much commentary which is the goal in a rhetorical essay is to include lots of commentary.

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To make sure I score well in my next rhetorical anaylsis I need to provide the SPACECAT method to help outline my essay. I will reduce summarizing and include more commentary, and make connections to the evidence of rhetorical choices.

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The essays that received high marks had a clear and compelling topic that was simple to support. In order to bolster and link to their thesis, they also incorporated evidence into their body paragraphs. In their argument, they also used sophisticated examples.

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Some essays performed poorly as a result of the spelling errors and topical claims made in them. They also received a poor grade for straying off subject and failing to elaborate on the supporting details they provided to the audience. Additionally, they were unable to provide a

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You can learn to organize everything in a better way that will help your writing. Being able to highlight, separate, and compare is also something you can do. Connections with the text can also help

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I can make sure that I use rhetorical analysis properly using the SPACECAT method. I could proof-read my essay to make sure the grammar is correct and the sentences flow nicely. I can make sure that I put enough commentary and that the commentary is meaningful.