8-9 6-7 5 3-4 1-2 0 Overall Demonstrates Demonstrates good Reveals simplistic Incomplete thinking; Unacceptably brief; Lacking skill and Impression excellent control of control of the thinking and/or fails to respond fails to respond to competence the literature and literature and good immature writing; adequately to part the question; little outstanding writing writing competence; adequate skills or parts of the clarity competence; less thorough and questions; may thorough and incisive than the paraphrase rather effective; incisive highest papers than analyze Understanding Excellent Good understanding Superficial Misreadings and Serious misreadings A response with no of the Text understanding of the of the text; exhibits understanding of the lack of persuasive and little supporting more than a text; exhibits perception and text; elements of evidence from the evidence from the reference to the perception and clarity; includes literature vague, text; meager and text; erroneous literature; blank clarity; original or specific references mechanical, unconvincing treatment of literary response, or one unique approach; treatment of literary elements completely off the includes apt and elements topic specific references Organization and Meticulously Well-organized and Reasonably Somewhat Little or no No apparent Development organized and developed; coherent organized and organized and organization and organization or thoroughly and unified developed; mostly developed; some development; development; developed; coherent coherent and unified incoherence and incoherent and void incoherent and unified lack of unity of Use of Effectively varied Varied and Adequately varied; Somewhat varied Little or no variation; Numerous major Sentences and engaging; interesting; a few some errors and marginally dull and errors virtually free errors interesting; one or uninteresting; some more major errors major errors Word Choice Interesting and Generally interesting Occasionally Somewhat dull and Mostly dull and Numerous major effective; virtually and effective; a few interesting and ordinary; some conventional; errors; extremely error free errors effective; several errors in diction numerous errors immature errors Grammar and Virtually error free Occasional minor Several minor errors Some errors Severely flawed; Extremely flawed Usage errors frequent errors 9 = 100% 8 = 95 % 7 = 90% 6 = 85% 5 = 80% 4 = 75% 3 = 65% 2 = 60% 1 = 50%
8-9 6-7 5 3-4 1-2 0 Overall Impression Demonstrates excellent control of the literature and outstanding writing competence; thorough and effective; incisive Demonstrates good control of the literature and good writing competence; less thorough and incisive than the highest papers Reveals simplistic thinking and/or immature writing; adequate skills Incomplete thinking; fails to respond adequately to part or parts of the questions; may paraphrase rather than analyze Unacceptably brief; fails to respond to the question; little clarity Lacking skill and competence Understanding of the Text Excellent understanding of the text; exhibits perception and clarity; original or unique approach; includes apt and specific references Good understanding of the text; exhibits perception and clarity; includes specific references Superficial understanding of the text; elements of literature vague, mechanical, Misreadings and lack of persuasive evidence from the text; meager and unconvincing treatment of literary elements Serious misreadings and little supporting evidence from the text; erroneous treatment of literary elements A response with no more than a reference to the literature; blank response, or one completely off the topic Organization and Development Meticulously organized and thoroughly developed; coherent and unified Well-organized and developed; coherent and unified Reasonably organized and developed; mostly coherent and unified Somewhat organized and developed; some incoherence and lack of unity Little or no organization and development; incoherent and void of No apparent organization or development; incoherent Use of Sentences Effectively varied and engaging; virtually free Varied and interesting; a few errors Adequately varied; some errors Somewhat varied and marginally interesting; one or more major errors Little or no variation; dull and uninteresting; some major errors Numerous major errors Word Choice Interesting and effective; virtually error free Generally interesting and effective; a few errors Occasionally interesting and effective; several errors Somewhat dull and ordinary; some errors in diction Mostly dull and conventional; numerous errors Numerous major errors; extremely immature Grammar and Usage Virtually error free Occasional minor errors Several minor errors Some errors Severely flawed; frequent errors Extremely flawed 9 = 100% 8 = 95 % 7 = 90% 6 = 85% 5 = 80% 4 = 75% 3 = 65% 2 = 60% 1 = 50%
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