Paste the rubric and your draft. See exactly which requirements you've hit, and what's missing, before you submit.
PDF or Word. This fills your draft; paste the rubric itself below.
A rubric is a marking scheme, and work is scored against it criterion by criterion rather than as one overall impression. That matters because some of the easiest marks to lose are not for weak writing at all: they go to a requirement sitting in the brief that never got addressed, the counterargument, the second source, the conclusion that was supposed to do more than restate. Reading a finished draft against each line of the rubric is one of the cheapest revisions available to you, and one of the easiest to skip when you are out of time.
Paste the rubric and your draft and each requirement is pulled out and judged on its own, marked met, partial or missing. That mirrors how a rubric is actually applied, one criterion at a time, instead of leaving you with a general feeling that the draft is probably fine.
A criterion marked met points to the part of your draft that satisfies it, so you can check the reasoning instead of taking the verdict on trust. If nothing can be pointed at, that is worth a second look: often the requirement was clear in your head rather than stated on the page.
Requirements are often half done rather than absent: a counterargument raised but never answered, a source quoted but never discussed. Anything marked partial or missing comes back with a specific fix, and closing those is usually quicker than writing anything new.
The check works from the words you paste in, so paste the whole brief including the parts you think are obvious. Anything your department expects but never wrote down cannot be checked, and vague criteria like demonstrates critical engagement remain a judgement call.
It is the marking scheme: the list of criteria your work is scored against, often with a description of what each grade band looks like. Treating it as a checklist before you write and again before you submit is more useful than reading it once when the assignment is set.
Yes. A PDF, Word or text file fills the draft box for you. The rubric itself still gets pasted, since it usually lives in a course page or a handbook rather than in the same document as your work.
Yes, and it is worth knowing where. It can mark something met that your marker would read differently, and it can misread or miss a requirement, particularly on criteria about depth, originality or critical engagement, which are judgement calls rather than checkable facts. Use it as a structured second read-through, not as a predicted grade.
You can check a draft for free. A free account saves your work and comes with higher daily limits.