Job’s Dilemma Rubric

Criteria Successful Response Partial Response Unsuccessful Response

1. Propose whether
   moral authority
   exists.
   2 points
2. Define moral
   authority
   4 points
3. Discuss what
   grants moral
   authority.
   4 points
4. Limits of moral
   authority.
   4 points
5. Logical
   consistency of
   proposal.
   6 points
6. English
   Composition.
   4 points
   Affirmed a Position
   Normative and
   objective definition
   Clear criteria
   Explicates origin of
   criteria and how met
   Proposed limits are
   consistent with
   definition
   Claims follow
   consistently from
   definition
   Introduction
   Clear division of kinds of
   paragraphs
   topic sentence
   transitions
   .
   Affirmed an ambiguous
   position
   Unclear criteria
   Ambiguous objectivity
   Examples rather than
   definition
   Ambiguous origin
   Proposed limits omit
   obvious problems
   Partial consistency
   Weak introduction
   Mixing of paragraphs,
   esp. intro and body
   weak topic sentences
   weak transitions
   Did not affirm a position
   Non-normative or
   subjective definition
   Non-normative or
   subjective origin
   Proposed limits are
   inconsistent or irrelevant
   to definition
   Claims are inconsistent
   with definition
   No introduction
   Little division of
   paragraphs
   no or irrelevant topic
   sentences
   no transitions

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