MECHANICS 4 3 2 1 Exhibits consistent control of Exhibits reasonable control of sentence Exhibits inconsistent control of Exhibits little or no control of SENTENCE sentence formation, avoiding formation, avoiding fragments, sentence formation, including sentence formation, including FORMATION fragments, run-ons, and comma and comma splices. occasional fragments, run-ons, and fragments, run-ons, and comma splices. comma splices splices. Exhibits consistent control of usage, Exhibits reasonable control of usage, Exhibits inconsistent control of Exhibits little or no control of usage, USAGE including subject/verb agreement, including subject/verb agreement, usage, including subject/verb including subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, adjectives and adverbs, verb tenses, adjectives and adverbs, verb tenses, pronoun case, adjectives and adjectives and adverbs, verb tenses, plurals and possessives, homophones, plurals and possessives, homophones, adverbs, verb tenses, plurals and plurals and possessives, and avoidance of double negatives. and avoidance of double negatives. possessives, homophones, and homophones, and double negatives. double negatives. Exhibits consistent control of Exhibits reasonable control of Exhibits inconsistent control of Exhibits little or no control of MECHANICS mechanics, including punctuation, mechanics, including punctuation, mechanics, including punctuation, mechanics, including punctuation, capitalization, formatting, and capitalization, formatting, and spelling. capitalization, formatting, and capitalization, formatting, and spelling. spelling. spelling.
MECHANICS 4 3 2 1 SENTENCE FORMATION Exhibits consistent control of sentence formation, avoiding fragments, run-ons, and comma splices. Exhibits reasonable control of sentence formation, avoiding fragments, and comma splices. Exhibits inconsistent control of sentence formation, including occasional fragments, run-ons, and comma splices Exhibits little or no control of sentence formation, including fragments, run-ons, and comma splices. USAGE Exhibits consistent control of usage, including subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, adjectives and adverbs, verb tenses, plurals and possessives, homophones, and avoidance of double negatives. Exhibits reasonable control of usage, including subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, adjectives and adverbs, verb tenses, plurals and possessives, homophones, and avoidance of double negatives. Exhibits inconsistent control of usage, including subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, adjectives and adverbs, verb tenses, plurals and possessives, homophones, and double negatives. Exhibits little or no control of usage, including subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, adjectives and adverbs, verb tenses, plurals and possessives, homophones, and double negatives. MECHANICS Exhibits consistent control of mechanics, including punctuation, capitalization, formatting, and spelling. Exhibits reasonable control of mechanics, including punctuation, capitalization, formatting, and spelling. Exhibits inconsistent control of mechanics, including punctuation, capitalization, formatting, and spelling. Exhibits little or no control of mechanics, including punctuation, capitalization, formatting, and spelling.