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Criteria – Speech #4

Grade – F

Grade – D

Grade – C

Grade – B

Grade – A

Topic Choice/Subject

Topic not assigned or

Superficial or not

Broad, but appropriate

Significant, challenging

Original perspective

offensive, less than

appropriate to

topic to audience

topic.

on significant topic.

 

5 mins.

audience/occasion.

and assignment.

 

 

Research/Works Cited

Plagiarism, ideas not

Only some support,

Many ideas supported,

Most ideas and

All ideas/conclusions

supported by research,

poor citations, poor

sources cited in key

conclusions supported

supported by highly

sources not cited.

source credibility.

points with credible

with highly credible

credible sources.

No bibliography.

Incomplete cites.

sources, paraphrasing.

sources. More than

More than 5 sources

 

Only 3 sources.

5 sources properly

5 sources cited in

cited in APA style

 

 

 

cited in bibliography.

APA style.

with no typos.

Outline

Missing

Wrong format, poor

Short or missing sections.

Proper format, well-

Full representation

 

structure, missing

No source citations in the

balanced, all ideas

of ideas in a key

 

major sections of

content.

presented, no typos.

word outline, well-

 

 

information.

Works Cited Page present

 

balanced, no typos.

Structure/Content

No clear parts of speech,

Intro, Body, Conclusion,

Clear parts of speech,

All parts of speech with

Clear parts of speech

no transistions, unclear

but no transistions or

transitions, and balance.

transitions among major

with good transitions.

language choice.

balance among main

Appropriate language.

ideas presented. Thought

Content drawn from primary

Composed of primarily

points. Poor language

Clear explanation of ideas.

provoking or highly

sources or wide variety of

unsupported assertions.

use.

 

descriptive language.

Best material available on the

 

Main points not in parallel 

 Main points presented

 Main points presented

Topic. Compelling use of
Appropriate language.

 

 phrasing.

 in parallel phrasing

 in parallel phrasing

 Main points presented

 

 

 

 

 in parallel phrasing

 

 

 

 

Delivery

Read entirely from a

Sounds memorized or read

Presented from notecards

Signifcant eye contact and

Almost continuous eye

manuscript. No eye

largely from a manuscript.

with average eye contact.

audience interaction. Good

contact. Dynamic physical

contact. No physical

Little eye contact with

Movement and vocal

vocal variety and appropriate

and vocal variety/volume.

movement. Monotone

audience (like glancing

inflection apparent in at

physical movement during

Energetic but appropriate

voice.

up from notecards in

least 1/2 of speech.

presentation. Notecards

physical movement and

 

between sentences.

 

used by not obtrusively.

good facials/gestures.

 

Little physical movement

 

 

Fluent use of notecards.

 

and little vocal inflection.

 

 

Confidence and enthusiasm.