The rubric provides a holistic assessment of essay composition skills across 10 levels, describing the thesis, organization, supporting materials, diction, mechanics, and goals accomplished at each level. A score of 10 represents perfect or near perfect writing that fully meets the assignment objectives, while lower scores have progressively more flaws in composition skills and accomplish fewer assignment goals.
The rubric provides a holistic assessment of essay composition skills across 10 levels, describing the thesis, organization, supporting materials, diction, mechanics, and goals accomplished at each level. A score of 10 represents perfect or near perfect writing that fully meets the assignment objectives, while lower scores have progressively more flaws in composition skills and accomplish fewer assignment goals.
The rubric provides a holistic assessment of essay composition skills across 10 levels, describing the thesis, organization, supporting materials, diction, mechanics, and goals accomplished at each level. A score of 10 represents perfect or near perfect writing that fully meets the assignment objectives, while lower scores have progressively more flaws in composition skills and accomplish fewer assignment goals.
The rubric provides a holistic assessment of essay composition skills across 10 levels, describing the thesis, organization, supporting materials, diction, mechanics, and goals accomplished at each level. A score of 10 represents perfect or near perfect writing that fully meets the assignment objectives, while lower scores have progressively more flaws in composition skills and accomplish fewer assignment goals.
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Holistic Rubrics for Essay
Score Descriptors
Essay demonstrates excellent composition skills including a clear and thought-
provoking thesis, appropriate and effective organization, lively and convincing supporting materials, effective diction, and sentence skills, and perfect or near perfect 10 mechanics including spelling and punctuation. The writing perfectly accomplishes the objectives of the assignment. Essay contains strong composition skills including a clear and thought-provoking thesis, although development, diction, and sentence style may suffer minor flaws. 8 Shows careful and acceptable use of mechanics. The writing effectively accomplishes the goals of the assignment. Essay contains above average composition skills, including a clear, insightful thesis, although development may be insufficient in one area and diction and style may not be 6 consistently clear and effective. Shows competence in the use of mechanics. Accomplishes the goals of the assignment with an overall effective approach. Essay demonstrates competent composition skills including adequate development and organization, although the development of ideas may be trite, assumptions may be 4 unsupported in more than one area, the thesis may not be original, and the diction and syntax may not be clear and effective. Minimally accomplishes the goals of the assignment. Composition skills may be flawed in either the clarity of the thesis, the development, 2 or organization. Diction, syntax, and mechanics may seriously affect clarity. Minimally accomplishes most of the goals of the assignment. Composition skills may be flawed in two or more areas. Diction, syntax, and mechanics are excessively flawed. Fails to accomplish the goals of the assignment. 1 Analytic Rubric for Essay
Score Content Organization Development Use of
Language Answer is Clear sense of Develops each Uses technical or appropriate to order. Begins point with many scientific the question. with a thesis or specific details. terminology Content is topic sentence. Answers question appropriately and 5 factually Supporting points completely. correctly. No correct. are presented in a major logical grammatical or progression spelling errors Answer is May lack a thesis Each point Accurate word appropriate to sentence, but supported with choice. No more the question. points are some details and than 2 major 3 Content may presented in a evidence. All errors and a few have one or two logical important points minor errors. factual errors progression. included. Content relates Logic of argument Sparse details or Ordinary word peripherally to is minimally evidence. choice, use of the question; perceivable. Question only scientific contains Points presented partially answered terminology 2 significant in a seemingly avoided with factual errors. random fashion, some serious but all support errors (but they argument. don’t impair communication). Content Lacks clear Statements are Limited unrelated to organizational unsupported by vocabulary and question plan. Reader is any detail or errors impair confused. explanation. communication. 1 Repetitious, incoherent, illogical development.