The Mercy High School Honor Pledge: "As a woman of Honor, I pledge that this work is my own".

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Criteria	Needs Developing	Developing	Competent	Highly Competent
Focus - Content (Addressing the Question)	Written response is confusing and needs more information	Ideas are scattered and need further development	Developed ideas and essentially accurate information	Sophisticated, substantial, well developed ideas
Organization (Overall order, flow, and transitions)	Details and examples show confused organization; hard to follow	Details and examples show incorrect organization	Information in logical order with paragraphs and transitions	Information is presented in effective order; paragraphs and transitions help paper flow smoothly
Introduction	Introductory paragraph is not apparent	Introductory paragraph is vague	Introductory paragraph contains a focus	Introductory paragraph has a sharp, distinct focus
Conclusion	Concluding paragraphs are not apparent	The closing paragraphs attempt to summarize and draw a conclusion	The closing paragraphs summarize and draws a conclusion	The closing paragraphs summarize and draw a clear and effective conclusion
Style/Voice	Lack of sentence and word choice variety	Limited sentence variety and word choice	Some precision and variety in sentence structure and word choice apparent	Precision and variety in sentence structure and word choice are apparent
Conventions	Repeated weaknesses in mechanics and usage interfere with writer's purpose	Mechanical and usage errors somewhat interfere with writer's purpose	Some mechanical and usage errors	Contains few mechanical and usage errors
Sources	Insufficient resources are used	Quotations are cited, sources are not	Some quotations and some sources are cited	All sources appear to be properly cited
Bibliography	Bibliography is flawed or missing; proper form not used	Correct bibliography attempted	Correct bibliography; minor errors	Correct bibliography

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1. Read your partners’ papers through once. Check off anything you do not understand or is not clear to you.
2. Read through a second time, this time with the rubric next to you. Try to see which standards apply. If you want to read through once thoroughly, then skim through once for each standard on the rubric, fine. If you want to read the rubric first, and then read the paper while trying to follow the rubric, that's fine too.
3. Remember, you are helping your partner focus her paper and get a good grade. If you don't understand something, I probably won't understand it either. If you find something that isn't sourced properly I’ll find it too. If you see something that works and you want to adapt it to your paper, SEEK PERMISSION from your partner (a very good habit to get into!) and use it.
4. We are going to conference in class date to be announced. If you are not going to be here, make arrangements to conference with your partner ahead of time. If you are sick on the conference day, it is in your partner's interest for you to arrange a meeting.  
5. Remember, you are helping each other focus the paper. This is a collaboration, please take advantage of the opportunity.