| Idea Development, Organization, and Coherence |
- Effectively introduces a topic.
- Develops the topic with multiple, relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
- Effectively organizes ideas using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect.
- Uses transitions to connect and clarify relationships among ideas.
- Uses precise language and domain-specific vocabulary.
- Maintains a formal style.
- Provides a strong concluding statement or section.
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- Introduces a topic.
- Develops the topic with a few facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
- Generally organizes ideas.
- Uses some transitions, but relationships may not always be clear.
- Uses some precise language and domain-specific vocabulary.
- Maintains a formal style, for the most part.
- Provides a concluding statement or section.
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- Attempts to introduce a topic.
- Attempts to develop the topic with too few details.
- Ineffectively organizes ideas.
- Uses few transitions.
- Uses limited language and vocabulary.
- Uses a formal style inconsistently or uses an informal style.
- Provides a weak concluding statement or section.
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- May not introduce a topic or topic is unclear.
- May not develop a topic.
- May be too brief to group related ideas.
- May not use linking words.
- Uses vague, ambiguous, or repetitive language.
- Uses a very informal style.
- Provides minimal or no concluding statement or section.
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- Blank, copied, too limited to score, illegible, incomprehensible, non-English, off-topic, off-task, or offensive.
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| Language Usage and Conventions |
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- Effectively varies sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest, and style.
- Shows command of language and conventions.
- Errors in usage and conventions do not interfere with meaning.
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- Varies some sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest, and style.
- Shows some knowledge of language and conventions.
- Minor errors in usage and conventions with no significant effect on meaning
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- Has fragments, run-ons, and/or other sentence structure errors.
- Shows little knowledge of language and conventions.
- Frequent errors in usage and conventions interfere with meaning.
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- Blank, copied, too limited to score, illegible, incomprehensible, non-English, off-topic, off-task, or offensive.
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