Gramar/Vocabulary Usage

Textual Reference and Language Choice

Development and Organization

* No errors in: capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and gramar.

* Writer provides information directly from the text that is properly cited. (2 quotes from both tasks) * Writer consistently provides language choices to enhance the text.

* Writer provides accurate, specific, purposeful information that is extended and expanded to fully explain topic. * Writer establishes an organizational plan and consistently maintains it.

An 'A' Paper

* Writer provides information that adequately explains the topic with some extension of ideas.  The information is usually accurate and purposeful. * Writer establishes an organizational plan but may have minor errors in maintaining it.

* Writer provides information directly from the text that is properly cited. * Writer frequently provides language choices to enhance the text.

* A few errors in: capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and gramar.

A 'B' Paper

* Writer provides information that inadequately explains the topic.  The information is sometimes accurate, general or extraneous. * Writer generally establishes and maintains an organizational plan.

* Writer provides some information from the text which may be properly cited. * Writer sometimes uses language choices to enhance the text.

* Some errors in: capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and gramar.

A 'C' Paper

* Writer provides insufficient  information to explain the topic.  The information may be vague and inaccurate. * Writer either did not establish an organizational plan, or it is only minimally maintained.

* Writer did not provide information from the text that is properly cited. * Writer seldom, if ever, uses language choices to enhance the text.

* Many errors in: capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and gramar.

A 'D' Paper

Introduction   Task 2   Task 4   Home         Task 1     Task 3      Conclusion