Essay buying or leasing a vehicle.docx
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. |