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Writing Rubric: Please Bring TWO Copies of this for each Peer Edit Day

Writer:                                                           Reader:

6   Essay: Excellent

                - perfectly accomplishes the objectives of the prompt

-  includes a clear and thought-provoking thesis

                -  appropriate and effective organization

                - lively and convincing supporting material

                - effective diction and sentence skills

                - perfect/ near perfect mechanics including spelling and punctuation

5 Essay: Very Good

-  effectively accomplishes the objectives of the prompt

-  includes a clear and thought-provoking thesis

                -  appropriate and effective organization

                -  convincing supporting material

                -  shows careful diction and mostly effective sentence skills

                -  few mechanical errors,  including spelling and punctuation errors

4 Essay: Good

-  accomplishes the objectives of the prompt for the most part

-  includes a clear thesis, though the ideas can be more refined

                -  appropriate and effective organization

                -  convincing supporting material, though not perfect

                -  shows careful diction and mostly effective sentence skills

                -  contains a number few mechanical errors, including spelling and punctuation errors

3 Essay: Acceptable:

-  minimally accomplishes the objectives of the prompt

-  includes an identifiable thesis, thought it could still be developed

                -  appropriate and effective organization, with some flaws

                -  contains supporting material at various degrees of effectiveness

                -  diction and sentence skills could be improved

-  contains a significant number of  errors including spelling and punctuation errors, but not enough to deter the understanding of the composition

2 Essay: Needs Improvement:

-  may be missing part of the objectives of the prompt

-  includes an identifiable thesis, that clearly needs to be further developed

                -  organization contains significant flaws

                -  contains supporting material that may be irrelevant or incorrect

                -  diction may be imprecise or overly generalized, showing rudimentary sentence skills

-  contains a significant number of errors, including spelling and punctuation errors.  The errors are significant enough to deter the understanding of certain parts of the composition

1 Essay: Needs Significant Improvement:

-  does not accomplish the objectives of the prompt, or is confused about the objective

-  may be missing a thesis

                -  composition is minimally organized

                -  may be missing a significant amount of supporting material

                -  diction and sentence need excessive improvement

-  contains a significant number of errors, including spelling and punctuation errors.  The errors are significant enough to deter the understanding of certain parts of the composition