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Score Descriptors: Holistic Rubrics For Essay

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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.

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