PA State Writing Rubric 6 5 4 3 2 1 sharp, distinct clear vague confused adequate focus absence of focus focus focus focus focus substantial, content specific, and/or limited to illustrative specific a listing, content; and sufficient superficial absence of repetition, sophisticated content content relevant content or mere ideas that are content sequence particularly well of ideas developed logical obviously and controlled and/or appropriate confused absence of subtle organization organization organization organization precision writer's voice and some precision limited no apparent lack of apparent in tone, variety in and variety in sentence control over sentence and sentence sentence sentence variety and sentence word choice structure, and structure structure and word structure and variety word choice and word word choice choice word choice choice mechanical mechanical and mechanical and and some usage errors not repeated usage errors so errors that severe enough severe that few mechanical seriously and to interfere in writer's ideas are and usage errors interfere usage significantly mechanics difficult if not with the errors with the writer's and usage impossible to writer's purpose understand purpose Non-Scorable (NS) Off-Prompt (OF) is illegible; i.e., includes so many undecipherable words that no sense can be made of the response is readable but did not is incoherent; i.e., words are legible but syntax is so respond to prompt garbled that response makes no sense is a blank paper
PA State Writing Rubric 6 5 4 3 2 1 sharp, distinct focus clear focus adequate focus vague focus confused focus absence of focus substantial, specific, and/or illustrative content; sophisticated ideas that are particularly well developed specific and content sufficient content content limited to a listing, repetition, or mere sequence of ideas superficial content absence of relevant content obviously controlled and/or subtle organization logical and appropriate organization confused organization absence of organization writer's voice apparent in tone, sentence structure, and word choice precision and variety in sentence structure and word choice some precision and variety in sentence structure and word choice limited sentence variety and word choice lack of sentence and word choice variety no apparent control over sentence structure and word choice few mechanical and usage errors some and usage errors mechanical and usage errors not severe enough to interfere significantly with the writer's purpose repeated in mechanics and usage mechanical and errors that seriously interfere with the writer's purpose mechanical and usage errors so severe that writer's ideas are difficult if not impossible to understand Non-Scorable (NS) Off-Prompt (OF) is illegible; i.e., includes so many undecipherable words that no sense can be made of the response is incoherent; i.e., words are legible but syntax is so garbled that response makes no sense is a blank paper is readable but did not respond to prompt
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