Annotated Bibliography Rubric
Grade = __________/ 100 points = ___________%
25 (Advanced)
MLA Citation is punctuated exactly as it
Documentation of should be based on MLA
the source formatting guidelinesSee MLA
8th Edition Formatting Source
Sheet for guidelines
Reliability & Expertly explains and justifies the
Credibility of reliability AND credibility of all
Source sources
Obvious understanding of
credibility
Summary & Two-three sentences of
Evaluation paraphrased summary that explains
the content of the source
Two-three sentences of evaluation
that explains how the source is
beneficial to the research essay
Structure Each annotation is completely free
of grammatical or structural errors
20 points 15--0 points
(Average) (Expectations not met)
The majority of citations Citation is not punctuated
are punctuated as they correctly based on MLA
should be based on MLA formatting guidelinesSee
formatting guidelines MLA 8th Edition Formatting
See MLA 8th Edition Source Sheet for guidelines
Formatting Source Sheet
for guidelines
Explains and justified the Explains (or attempts to
reliability AND credibility explain) the reliability OR
of all sources. credibility of some sources
Clear understanding of There may be some sense of
credibility incompleteness or of not
understanding the credibility
Fewer than two sentences Incomplete or missing
of paraphrased summary
that explains the content
of the source
Fewer than two sentences
of evaluation that explains
how the source is
beneficial to the research
essay
The majority of the Few, if any, of the
annotations are free of annotations are free of
grammatical or structural grammatical or structural
errors errors