Rubric for Evaluating Essays
A 5 essay (90-100) must meet all of the criteria listed below:
- It is well organized.
- It is well developed.
- It clearly and appropriately addresses a specific audience.
- It demonstrates sentence variety, clarity, and appropriate word choice.
- It is virtually free from errors in mechanics, usage, and sentence formation.
- It fulfills the conditions of the assignment.
A 4 essay (80-89) must meet all of the criteria listed below:
- It is generally well organized.
- It develops the main idea(s).
- It exhibits an awareness of the audience and the kind of writing appropriate for that audience.
- It demonstrates some sentence variety.
- It is generally free from errors in mechanics, usage, and sentence formation.
- It fulfills the conditions of the assignment.
A 3 essay (70-79) must meet all of the criteria listed below:
- It is adequately organized.
- It develops the main idea(s).
- It displays some awareness of the audience and the kind of writing appropriate for that audience.
- It may display some errors in mechanics, usage, and sentence formation but not a consistent pattern of such errors.
- It fulfills the conditions of the assignment.
A 2 essay (60-69) exhibits one of the following weaknesses:
- It exhibits weaknesses in organization.
- It does not develop the key idea(s).
- It reveals that the writer is unaware of the kind of writing appropriate for the audience.
- It reveals a pattern of errors in mechanics, usage, and sentence formation.
- It does not fulfill the conditions of the assignment.
A 1 essay (0-59) is seriously marred by a lack of organization and development and exhibits a pattern or accumulation of errors, suggesting that the writer does not have control over the conventions of standard written English. It may also contain plagiarism.
A zero (0) essay is one that contains plagiarism or is never turned in.
*Grading takes place only on the FINAL DRAFT of your essay
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