Thinking through the material covered in these 8 weeks, respond to the following for your final exam:
- What is your biggest takeaway with regard to the material on women and girls as victimsof crime? Why?
- What is your biggest takeaway with regard to women and girls as perpetratorsof crime? Why?
- What is your biggest takeaway with regard to women as professionalsin the criminal legal system? Why?
Each of these three questions should be answered in essay format, and material from your modules should be used and cited in your answers. Each essay should be 2-3 pages, double spaced, with no extraneous spacing (so a total of 6 to 9 pages). Please cite the information you use for your answers within and at the end of the text. Late submissions will receive a grade of zero.
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Criteria | Ratings | Pts |
Purpose, Focus and Organization view longer description | 5 pts Excellent The main idea is easy to find. All the ideas are connected to the topic through explanation. 4 pts Mastery The main idea is easy to find. The examples and details are linked to the topic, but not well explained. 3 pts Good Job The main idea is easy to find. Most of the ideas are connected to the topic. 2 pts Needs Improvement The main idea may be hard to find. The examples and details are not connected. 1 pts Needs Help The writing is difficult to understand. | / 5 pts |
Purpose, Focus and Organization view longer description | 5 pts Excellent The tone is academic, nothing is written in a personal manner. 4 pts Mastery The tone is objective but not academic, missing the precise academic vocabulary. 3 pts Good Job The writer used personal pronouns and or did not stay objective. 2 pts Needs Improvement There are many personal pronouns, it is informal. 1 pts Needs Help It is unclear what kind of style the writer used. It is personal. | / 5 pts |
Purpose, Focus and Organization view longer description | 5 pts Excellent There are full introduction and concluding paragraphs. The ideas build on each other in an order that makes sense. 4 pts Mastery There are introductory and concluding paragraphs. The order of ideas makes sense. 3 pts Good Job The introduction and or conclusion may be missing information. 2 pts Needs Improvement Missing either the introduction or conclusion. 1 pts Needs Help The essay was written as one paragraph. No clear organization of ideas. | / 5 pts |
Purpose, Focus and Organization view longer description | 5 pts Excellent Transition words and phrases are used between paragraphs and in the paragraphs to move from one idea to the next smoothly. 4 pts Mastery Transition words and phrases are used, but may be repeated, or simple 3 pts Good Job The essay may be missing transitions, and/ or the ideas sound more like a list than a paragraph. 2 pts Needs Improvement There are few to no transitions, and the ideas are listed. 1 pts Needs Help It is difficult to follow the ideas, there is no clear order. | / 5 pts |
Evidence and Elaboration view longer description | 5 pts Excellent The evidence adds important information about the topic. The evidence fits into the writer’s’ own sentences. 4 pts Mastery The evidence adds important information but is not smoothly integrated into the paragraphs. 3 pts Good Job There is an attempt to explain but many points are unclear or not connected. 2 pts Needs Improvement The ideas are not explained, a few examples are listed without support 1 pts Needs Help The writer does not understand the topic. Many ideas do not make sense. | / 5 pts |
Evidence and Elaboration view longer description | 5 pts Excellent Every example is well explained. The reader is not asked to assume information. 4 pts Mastery Most of the examples are well explained. Only one or two points need to be inferred. 3 pts Good Job The evidence is on topic, but it is stuck into the paragraphs. 2 pts Needs Improvement The evidence does not add to the topic but repeats, or is off topic. 1 pts Needs Help Evidence is missing. | / 5 pts |
Evidence and Elaboration view longer description | 5 pts Excellent The word choice is specific and adds depth to the ideas. Academic vocabulary adds to the meaning and shows a deep understanding of the topic. 4 pts Mastery The word choice is specific. Academic vocabulary adds to the meaning and shows an understanding of the topic. 3 pts Good Job The word choice is appropriate to the topic, but is missing academic language. 2 pts Needs Improvement The word choice is very simple. There is no topic specific, or academic language used. 1 pts Needs Help The word choice is inappropriate for the assignment. | / 5 pts |
Evidence and Elaboration view longer description | 5 pts Excellent There are simple, compound, and complex sentences of different lengths that flow smoothly into each other. 4 pts Mastery There are simple, compound, and complex sentences of different lengths 3 pts Good Job There is some variety in the sentence types. 2 pts Needs Improvement The sentences are choppy, listing information instead of tying ideas together. 1 pts Needs Help Many sentences are run-ons and/or incomplete. | / 5 pts |
Conventions view longer description | 5 pts Excellent Only two or three errors. 4 pts Mastery There are a few errors but they do not make it difficult to understand. 3 pts Good Job A few errors interfere with the meaning of ideas. 2 pts Needs Improvement Many errors make it difficult to follow the ideas of the text. 1 pts Needs Help The many errors make the writing hard to understand. | / 5 pts |
References and Citations view longer description | 5 pts Excellent Every quotation and paraphrase piece of information from sources is correctly cited. The format for the citations is consistent. 4 pts Mastery All information from the sources is cited, but there are errors in the citations. 3 pts Good Job Some of the source information is not cited. 2 pts Needs Improvement There are errors in the source information and citations. 1 pts Needs Help Information is plagiarized. | / 5 pts |