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Essay: Buy or Lease a Motor vehicle

Write a 2-3 page essay about the topic below:

You just inherited $5000 from a distant relative. You need to make a decision of either buying a car and putting $5000 as a down payment or leasing a vehicle. Discuss your choice. Identify the issues with each alternative. Support your choice with facts and evidence from the information covered in the lesson. Draw a conclusion at the end that aligns with your decision.

Use the rubric below to guide you through your essay:

 

4 – Excellent:  Consistently exhibits all/almost all characteristics for category.

3 – High-Average: Consistently exhibits most/many identified characteristics for category.

2 – Low-Average: Consistently fails to exhibit most/many identified characteristics for category.

1 – Poor:  Consistently fails to exhibit all/almost all characteristics for category.

Identifies issues

-Clearly addresses assignment.

-Accurately identifies all key issues.

-Accurately defines all issues.

-Shows thorough understanding of these issues.

-Clearly addresses assignment.

-Identifies all key issues.

-Defines all key issues.

- Shows lack of clarity about meaning of some issues.

-Overlooks some key issues.

-Does not clearly define some issues.

-Shows only superficial understanding of some issues.

-Fails to identify or correctly define most key issues.

- Fails to show understanding of assignment.

Understands connections

-Thesis shows clear understanding of how key points are related.

-Analysis shows awareness of these relationships.

-Thesis shows understanding of how key points are related.

-Analysis sometimes loses track of these connections.

-Thesis connects only some key points.

- Analysis does take relationship among key points into account.

-No coherent thesis present.

-Points treated separately without consideration of the whole issue.

Provides support

-Uses sufficient and appropriate support for each key point.

-Includes information which opposes his/her position.

-Uses sufficient and appropriate support for most key points, but support weak in 1 or 2 areas.

-Includes information which opposes his/her position.

-Uses insufficient evidence in more than 2 areas

-Includes irrelevant information.

-Omits important opposing evidence.

-Uses insufficient and irrelevant information in most areas.

-Omits all opposing evidence.

Draws inferences

-Draws logical conclusions from evidence.

-Draws important, not superficial, conclusions from evidence.

-Draws conclusions which are consistent with each other.

-Draws logical conclusions from evidence.

-Draws conclusions, but not always important ones.

-Sometimes draws inconsistent conclusions.

-Draws some logical conclusions from evidence.

-Some conclusions unclear, illogical, inconsistent or superficial.

-Draws conclusions not justified by evidence.

-Draws inconsistent conclusions.

-Relies on closed-minded approach rather than evidence when drawing conclusions.

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