Distinguished - Thoroughly explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages responsibilities and functions of agencies that mitigate hostilities, threats, hazards, and consequences.

Proficient - Explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages responsibilities and functions of agencies that mitigate hostilities, threats, hazards, and consequences. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Minimally explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages responsibilities and functions of agencies that mitigate hostilities, threats, hazards, and consequences. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to explain the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages responsibilities and functions of agencies that mitigate hostilities, threats, hazards, and consequences; however, significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The explanation of the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages responsibilities and functions of agencies that mitigate hostilities, threats, hazards, and consequences is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages skills utilized to identify, evaluate, and resolve complex policy issues.

Proficient - Explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages skills utilized to identify, evaluate, and resolve complex policy issues. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Minimally explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages skills utilized to identify, evaluate, and resolve complex policy issues. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to explain the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages skills utilized to identify, evaluate, and resolve complex policy issues; however, significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The explanation of the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages skills utilized to identify, evaluate, and resolve complex policy issues is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages methods utilized by response systems.

Proficient - Explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages methods utilized by response systems. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Minimally explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages methods utilized by response systems. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to explain the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages methods utilized by response systems; however, significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The explanation of the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages methods utilized by response systems is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages ethical and legal issues that arise in response to Homeland Security actions.

Proficient - Explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages ethical and legal issues that arise in response to Homeland Security actions. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Minimally explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages ethical and legal issues that arise in response to Homeland Security actions. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to explain the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages ethical and legal issues that arise in response to Homeland Security actions; however, significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The explanation of the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages ethical and legal issues that arise in response to Homeland Security actions is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages theory utilized to advance research questions in homeland security.

Proficient - Explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages theory utilized to advance research questions in homeland security. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Minimally explains the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages theory utilized to advance research questions in homeland security. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to explain the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages theory utilized to advance research questions in homeland security; however, significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The explanation of the authors’ research objective, findings, and associated policy implications for an article that engages theory utilized to advance research questions in homeland security is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Provides a brief description of the professional and academic background of the author(s).

Proficient - Provides a brief description of the professional and academic background of the author(s). The description is missing minor details.

Basic - Provides a description of the professional and academic background of the author(s). The description is either too lengthy or missing relevant details.

Below Expectations - Attempts to provides a brief description of the professional and academic background of the author(s); however, the description is excessively lengthy or significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The brief description of the professional and academic background of the author(s) is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly compares or contrasts each article with another article within the annotated bibliography in terms of respective findings and contributions.

Proficient - Compares or contrasts each article with another article within the annotated bibliography in terms of respective findings and contribution. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Minimally compares or contrasts each article with another article within the annotated bibliography in terms of respective findings and contributions. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to compare or contrast each article with another article within the annotated bibliography in terms of respective findings and contributions; however, does not include each article, and significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The comparison or contrasting of each article with another article within the annotated bibliography in terms of respective findings and contributions is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly explains how the article could be utilized to inform a theoretically-grounded and evidence-based policy proposal.

Proficient - Explains how the article could be utilized to inform a theoretically-grounded and evidence-based policy proposal. The explanation is slightly underdeveloped.

Basic - Minimally explains how the article could be utilized to inform a theoretically-grounded and evidence-based policy proposal. The explanation is underdeveloped.

Below Expectations - Attempts to explain how the article could be utilized to inform a theoretically-grounded and evidence-based policy proposal; however, the explanation is significantly underdeveloped.

Non-Performance - The explanation of how the article could be utilized to inform your theoretically-grounded and evidence-based policy proposal is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains no errors and is very easy to understand.

Proficient - Displays comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains only a few minor errors and is mostly easy to understand.

Basic - Displays basic comprehension of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains a few errors which may slightly distract the reader.

Below Expectations - Fails to display basic comprehension of syntax or mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains major errors which distract the reader.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Accurately uses APA formatting consistently throughout the paper, title page, and reference page.

Proficient - Exhibits APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout contains a few minor errors. 

Basic - Exhibits limited knowledge of APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout does not meet all APA requirements. 

Below Expectations - Fails to exhibit basic knowledge of APA formatting. There are frequent errors, making the layout difficult to distinguish as APA.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - The length of the paper is equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Proficient - The length of the paper is nearly equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Basic - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least three quarters of the required number of correctly formatted pages.

Below Expectations - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least one half of the required number of correctly formatted pages.   

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Uses more than the required number of scholarly sources, providing compelling evidence to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Proficient - Uses the required number of scholarly sources to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Basic - Uses less than the required number of sources to support ideas. Some sources may not be scholarly. Most sources on the reference page are used within the body of the assignment. Citations may not be formatted correctly.

Below Expectations - Uses an inadequate number of sources that provide little or no support for ideas. Sources used may not be scholarly. Most sources on the reference page are not used within the body of the assignment. Citations are not formatted correctly.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.