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Gordon Rule Criteria

The following descriptors will be used as the MDC criteria for “college-level writing”.

The writing will:

  • have a clearly defined central idea or thesis;
  • provide adequate support for that idea;
  • be organized clearly and logically;
  • utilize the conventions of standard edited American English;
  • be presented in a format appropriate to the assignment.












































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