task, purpose, and task, purpose, and task, purpose, and task, purpose, and task, purpose, and audience audience audience audience audience OR Does not respond to the prompt Distinguished (20) Proficient (16) Apprentice (12) Novice (8) Incomplete (0) Content Provides relevant Provides relevant Provides Provides Provides little to content and specific content and insufficient content minimal content no content and effective effective supporting and ineffective OR supporting details details supporting details Does not respond that demonstrate a to the prompt clear understanding of purpose Distinguished (15) Proficient (12) Apprentice (9) Novice (6) Incomplete (0) Organization Chooses Chooses Displays some Displays little Displays no sophisticated appropriate evidence of evidence of evidence of organizational organizational organizational organizational organizational strategies strategies for task, strategies strategies strategies appropriate for task, purpose, and May use Uses few or no Does not use purpose, and audience simplistic and/or transitional transitions to link audience Uses transitional illogical transitional expressions to link ideas Uses sophisticated phrases, and expressions ideas Does not include transitional words, clauses to link May not include May not include an identifiable phrases, and ideas an introduction, an identifiable introduction, body, clauses to link ideas Includes a clear body, and/or introduction, body, and/or conclusion and create cohesion introduction, body, conclusion and/or conclusion OR Includes a clear and conclusion that Does not respond and well-defined support the to prompt introduction, body, argument and conclusion that support or reinforce the argument Distinguished (5) Proficient (4) Apprentice (3) Novice (2) Incomplete (0) Style Uses consistently Uses precise Uses imprecise Uses simplistic Uses repetitious precise language language and a language and a or repetitious language and and a wide variety of variety of sentence limited variety of language and sentence structures sentence structures structures sentence structures sentence Demonstrates no Chooses an Chooses an May choose an structures understating of effective style and appropriate style inappropriate style Demonstrates style, tone or point tone, and maintains and tone, and a or tone, and may little or no of view a consistent point of point of view shift point of view understating of OR view tone or point of Does not respond view to prompt Conventions Writer makes few Writer makes few Writer makes Writer makes Writer makes errors and errors do errors and errors errors and errors errors and errors errors and errors not interfere with seldom interfere may interfere with often interfere with consistently
task, purpose, and audience task, purpose, and audience task, purpose, and audience task, purpose, and audience task, purpose, and audience OR Does not respond to the prompt Distinguished (20) Proficient (16) Apprentice (12) Novice (8) Incomplete (0) Content Provides relevant content and specific and effective supporting details that demonstrate a clear understanding of purpose Provides relevant content and effective supporting details Provides insufficient content and ineffective supporting details Provides minimal content Provides little to no content OR Does not respond to the prompt Distinguished (15) Proficient (12) Apprentice (9) Novice (6) Incomplete (0) Organization Chooses sophisticated organizational strategies appropriate for task, purpose, and audience Uses sophisticated transitional words, phrases, and clauses to link ideas and create cohesion Includes a clear and well-defined introduction, body, and conclusion that support or reinforce the argument Chooses appropriate organizational strategies for task, purpose, and audience Uses transitional phrases, and clauses to link ideas Includes a clear introduction, body, and conclusion that support the argument Displays some evidence of organizational strategies May use simplistic and/or illogical transitional expressions May not include an introduction, body, and/or conclusion Displays little evidence of organizational strategies Uses few or no transitional expressions to link ideas May not include an identifiable introduction, body, and/or conclusion Displays no evidence of organizational strategies Does not use transitions to link ideas Does not include an identifiable introduction, body, and/or conclusion OR Does not respond to prompt Distinguished (5) Proficient (4) Apprentice (3) Novice (2) Incomplete (0) Style Uses consistently precise language and a wide variety of sentence structures Chooses an effective style and tone, and maintains a consistent point of view Uses precise language and a variety of sentence structures Chooses an appropriate style and tone, and a point of view Uses imprecise language and a limited variety of sentence structures May choose an inappropriate style or tone, and may shift point of view Uses simplistic or repetitious language and sentence structures Demonstrates little or no understating of tone or point of view Uses repetitious language and sentence structures Demonstrates no understating of style, tone or point of view OR Does not respond to prompt Conventions Writer makes few errors and errors do not interfere with Writer makes few errors and errors seldom interfere Writer makes errors and errors may interfere with Writer makes errors and errors often interfere with Writer makes errors and errors consistently
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