Reminder(s) About the Sustainability PBAT

Your task is as follows:

·      Develop a nuanced claim in response to the following question, “How sustainable is humankind?”

o   Sophisticated writing also entertains and refutes a counterclaim to further support a claim.

o   Think about your definition of sustainability as well as the principles that comprise it.

·      Support your claim with evidence from reading, research, notes, rationale from class

o   Use direct citing or paraphrasing if/when you feel you are using an author’s opinions/data to support your opinions.

§  Use MLA/APA formatting for in-text citations/paraphrasing

·      Your completed task should not surpass more than 3 pages typed (or about 1,000 words). NOTE: This is intended to relieve (some) stress, rather than add it.

The completed task is due in class on Friday, September 19^th. See the rubric below as a further guide for your writing/thinking.

	Mastery – 4	Proficient – 3	Satisfactory – 2	Needs Revision – 1
Claim	States clear, well-reasoned, nuanced claim and counterclaim	States clear, well-reasoned claim and counterclaim	States a logical, but vague claim	States an illogical or indefensible position
Support of claim	Thoroughly supports claim(s) with several detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as refuted counterclaims	Supports claim(s) with multiple detailed, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as attempts at forming counterclaims/ refutations of them	Supports claim(s) with multiple detailed, convincing specific reasons/pieces of evidence but neglects to make use of counterclaim OR reasons/pieces of evidence are lacking in detail or specificity	Supports claim(s) with reasons/ evidence that are not convincing due to lack of detail, specificity, or clarity OR not having enough pieces of evidence to support each claim
Demonstrates knowledge	Consistently demonstrates deep knowledge of material in readings by constantly: using vocabulary, explaining examples clearly, incorporating statistics, etc.	Consistently demonstrates knowledge of material in readings by: using vocabulary, explaining examples clearly, incorporating statistics, etc and minor errors or occasions for further explanation may be present	Demonstrates knowledge of material in readings by using vocabulary, etc. but with multiple or glaring errors or lack of a detail	Does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge of material from readings through errors or lack of usage/ explanation.
Credit to sources	While writing in his/her own words, correctly and properly directly cites/ paraphrases and refers to case studies within text	While writing in his/her own words, cites/ paraphrases and refers to case studies within text with minor errors	While writing in his/her own words, cites/ paraphrases and refers to case studies within text but with clear errors	Citations/ paraphrasing are missing or it is obvious that student is not giving due credit to sources through his/her style of writing
Writing conventions	Writes elegantly and in a sophisticated manner while very consistently adhering to spelling and grammar conventions	Very consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions	Consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions	Mostly adheres to spelling and grammar conventions