Absent Emerging
Acknowledgement & You have made a weak attempt
Terminology Aboriginal terminology and/or
Acknowledgement missing
Claim and Evidence You have not Identified the Key
point of the article and the
evidence used.
Organisation and Your paragraphs lacks overall
paragraphs organisation, thematic unity and
coherence in and/or between
sentences, including the
development of ideas. Does not
adhere to academic
writing style conventions
Grammar and You have been unable to achieve Your writing contains some
Vocabulary the task because of vocabulary grammatical errors and/or uses a
and/or grammar limitations.
Evidence is References are not integrated.
integrated Citations poorly formatted or
lacking - this is plagiarism
Pass
You have made a weak attempt
Aboriginal terminology and/or
Acknowledgement
You have partly identified the Key You have mostly identified the
point of the article and/or the
evidence used.
Your paragraphs may lack overall
organisation but develops some
ideas coherently. Sentence
structures may be limited and/or
inappropriately connected. and
/or have not addressed academic
writing style conventions
limited vocabulary. Contains
several spelling and/or
punctuation errors – do not
penalise typos or common
misspellings.
Some sources are lacking, or
inconsistently integrated or may
not be fully relevant to the topic;
and/or Citations are partially
formatted and/or incorrectly
placed
Good
You have a good attempt at
Aboriginal terminology and
Acknowledgement.
Key point or the article and the
evidence used.
Your paragraphs addresses the
topic and includes a range of
sentence structures which are
usually appropriately connected.
Mostly adhering to academic
writing style conventions
Your writing contains some
grammatical errors in complex
forms, and/or may include a more vocabulary and include few, if any, vocabulary and does not include
limited vocabulary range.
Contains a number of spelling
and/or punctuation errors ‐ do not errors ‐ do not penalise typos or errors
penalise typos or common
misspellings.
You have integrated a minimum
of 2 sources but may not always
completely relevant to the topic;
no quotes; and/or citations are
mostly formatted correctly, but
not always with correct
placement.
Excellent
You have mostly correct You have used correct Aboriginal
Aboriginal terminology and terminology and meaningful
meaningful Acknowledgement. Acknowledgement.
You have correctly identified the You have correctly identified the
Key point of the article and the Key point of the article and the
evidence used; but one may be evidence used.
limited.
Your well‐constructed paragraphs Your well‐ constructed paragraphs
are logically organised, addresses are logically organised, addresses
the topic and includes a range of the topic and expresses ideas
appropriately connected sentence coherently through a wide range
structures. Fully adhering to of appropriately connected
academic writing style sentence structures. Fully
conventions adhering to academic writing style
conventions
Your writing contains a range of Your writing contains a wide range
contextually appropriate of contextually appropriate
grammatical error Contains very any grammatical errors; Is free
few spelling or punctuation from spelling or punctuation
common misspellings
A minimum of 2 sources, with More than 2 sources are
good paraphrasing, or considered integrated into the text (i.e. no
use of information prominence, direct quotations, well-
and no quotes; and citations are paraphrased, considered use of
mostly fomatted correctly information prominence, and
relevant to support ideas; and
Citations are positioned and
formatted correctly.
 Strong personal connection and
insightful reflection, strong
You have described a personal
connection to experiences or
You have described a personal You have described some connection by linking relevant
beliefs, thorough discussion of
Personal connection Lacks personal connection and connectionto the topic; but may personal connection by linking experiences and beliefs to the
challenging or reinforcing
& Reflection reflection lack specific details relevant experiences to the topic, topic, and/or real-life
perspectives, meaningful parallels
and/or real-life situations/events situations/events, new thoughts
to real-life situations/events, and
or areas of interest.
indication of new thoughts or
areas of interest.

Reference List Reference list is absent or is not
formatted with any consistent
style and contains numerous
errors.
Your Reference list is partially
formatted in APA 7th style and
contains 4‐5 errors.
Your Reference list has minimum
2 sources and is formatted in APA
7th style but with 2‐3 errors. All
references in the list also appear
as in-text citations.
Your Reference list has minimum
2 sources and is formatted in APA
7th style but with very minor
insignificant errors. All references
in the list also appear as in-text
citations.
Reference list has more than 2
sources and is formatted in APA
7th style with no errors. All
references in the list also appear
as in-text citations.