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2 The response is somewhat sustained and may have a minor drift in focus: • may be clearly focused on the claim but is insufficiently sustained • claim on the issue may be somewhat unclear and unfocused The response has an inconsistent organizational structure, and flaws are evident: • inconsistent use of basic transitional strategies with little variety • uneven progression of ideas from beginning to end • conclusion and introduction, if present, are weak • weak connection among ideas The response provides uneven, cursory support/evidence for the writer’s claim that includes partial or uneven use of sources, facts, and details, and achieves little depth: • evidence from sources is weakly integrated, and citations, if present, are uneven • weak or uneven use of elaborative techniques The response expresses ideas unevenly, using simplistic language: • use of vocabulary may at times be inappropriate for the audience and purpose The response demonstrates a partial command of conventions: • frequent errors in usage may obscure meaning • inconsistent use of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling 1 The response may be related to the purpose but may little relevant detail: • may be very brief • may have a major drift • may be confusing or ambiguous The response has little or no discernible organizational structure: • few or no transitional strategies are evident • frequent extraneous ideas may intrude The response provides minimal support/evidence for the writer’s claim that includes little or no use of sources, facts, and details: • use of evidence from sources is minimal, absent, in error, or irrelevant The response expression of ideas is vague, lacks clarity, or is confusing: • uses limited language or vocabulary • may have little sense of audience and purpose The response demonstrates a lack of command of conventions: • errors are frequent and severe and meaning is often obscure 0 A response gets no credit if it provides no evidence of the ability to [fill in with key language from the intended target]. Comments: