Engaging and Voice appropriate Voice adequate to generally not individualized to the audience/purpose, hard to possible due to voice appropriate audience/purpose, but often is characterize severe to the though it may be predictable because of mechanical audience/purpose somewhat generic May be slight frequent problems Consistency of or predictable in inconsistencies of mechanical places tone problems Refreshing and Consistency of Predictable word Phrasing problems, revealing word choice; low range garbled sentence choice Interesting and of synonyms structure Style/Voice Varied and varied word employed noticeable in interesting choice Sentences several places sentence structure Some creative mechanically Overall lack of sentence variety sound but lack in control/confidence variety of writing Full variety of Variety of Frequent sentence Sentences often Simplistic or sentence sentence structure structure problems simplistic or incoherent structures used used correctly Diction/phrasing incoherent sentences correctly Accurate diction often inaccurate Frequent misuse of outweigh Accurate and and phrasing Frequent and common words intelligible precise diction Infrequent varied and phrases sentences and phrasing grammatical and grammatical, Many major Diction often Very few mechanical errors punctuation, and grammatical, inaccurate or grammatical and that rarely disrupt mechanical errors punctuation, and severely limited Mechanics punctuation flow or clarity that interfere with mechanical errors vocabulary errors clarity that interfere with Mechanical errors some reader’s predominate understanding of the text
Style/Voice Engaging and individualized voice appropriate to the audience/purpose Consistency of Refreshing and revealing word choice Varied and interesting sentence structure Voice appropriate to the audience/purpose, though it may be somewhat generic or predictable in places Consistency of Interesting and varied word choice Some creative sentence variety Voice adequate to audience/purpose, but often is predictable May be slight inconsistencies of tone Predictable word choice; low range of synonyms employed Sentences mechanically sound but lack in variety generally hard to characterize because of frequent mechanical problems Phrasing problems, garbled sentence structure noticeable in several places Overall lack of control/confidence of writing not possible due to severe mechanical problems Mechanics Full variety of sentence structures used correctly Accurate and precise diction and phrasing Very few grammatical and punctuation errors Variety of sentence structure used correctly Accurate diction and phrasing Infrequent grammatical and mechanical errors that rarely disrupt flow or clarity Frequent sentence structure problems Diction/phrasing often inaccurate Frequent and varied grammatical, punctuation, and mechanical errors that interfere with clarity Sentences often simplistic or incoherent Frequent misuse of common words and phrases Many major grammatical, punctuation, and mechanical errors that interfere with some reader’s understanding of the text Simplistic or incoherent sentences outweigh intelligible sentences Diction often inaccurate or severely limited vocabulary Mechanical errors predominate
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