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The writer demonstrates consistent, though not necessarily perfect, control of the domain’s features of usage/mechanics. The writing demonstrates a thorough understanding of usage and mechanics. The author uses capitalization, punctuation, usage, and sentence formation and applies the structural principles of spelling. A few careless errors in usage and mechanics may be present. However, the writer’s control of the domain’s many features is too strong for these mistakes to detract from the performance. The writer demonstrates reasonable, but not consistent, control of most of the domain’s features of usage/mechanics. For the most part, the author appropriately applies the rules of capitalization, punctuation, usage, and sentence formation and the structural principles of spelling expected of high school students. The writer demonstrates inconsistent control of several features, indicating significant weakness in the domain of usage/mechanics. Evidence of the author’s knowledge of features of this domain appears alongside frequent errors. In terms of both usage and mechanics, the writer inconsistently applies the rules of capitalization, punctuation, usage, spelling, and sentence formation. The density of errors across features outweighs the feature control present in the paper. The writer demonstrates little or no control of most of the domain’s features of usage/mechanics. Frequent and severe errors distract the reader and make the writing very hard to understand. Even when meaning is not significantly affected, the density and variety of errors overwhelm the performance and keep it from meeting minimum standards of competence.