Literatura Inglesa I Essay Grading Rubric
Winthrop and Bradford Essay
IDEAS
Controlling idea
Supporting ideas
Use of details
Awareness of purpose
Sense of completeness
ORGANIZATION
Introduction/body/conclusion
Sequence of ideas
Grouping of ideas
Effective transitions
Awareness of purpose
STYLE
Sentence variety
Word choice
Audience awareness
Personal voice
CONVENTIONS
Sentence formation
Subject-verb agreement
Standard word forms
Punctuation, spelling, and
capitalization
Points
5 4 3 2 1 Earned
The essay is fully The essay is The essay is The essay is The essay shows
focused and contains consistently focused sufficiently focused minimally focused. little or no focus and
a wealth of ideas and and contains ample and contains some The provided the ideas are
examples. The ideas and examples. ideas and examples. examples are vague unclear, irrelevant,
writer uses rhetorical The writer may The response is or general and the or repetitive. The 5
strategies and employ rhetorical generally response response is
addresses strategies or address appropriate to the demonstrates incomplete or too
counterarguments. counterarguments. persuasive purpose. minimal awareness. brief.
The organization of The organization is The organization is The organization is The essay shows
ideas supports the appropriate and the generally formulaic or little evidence of
writers focus. Ideas sequencing of ideas appropriate and the inappropriate. The organization or
are grouped in a is logical. Varied ideas are clearly response may lack a sequencing. 5
logical manner. transitions are used. sequenced, but may clear introduction or Transitions are not
Effective and varied be repetitive. conclusion. used. The response
transitions are used. Transitions are used Transitions are rare. is incomplete or too
brief.
The writer utilizes The language and The language and The language and The language and
carefully crafted tone of the essay tone are appropriate. tone are uneven. tone are
phrases to create a enhance the Word choice is Word choice is inappropriate.
sustained tone and persuasive purpose. adequate, but may simple, ordinary, or Word choice is 5
an authoritative Word choice is be simple or repetitive. There is incorrect or
voice. Word choice appropriate. ordinary. Some minimal variation in confusing. The
reflects an advanced Sentences are varied. sentence variety is sentence length and response is
vocabulary. evident. structure. incomplete or too
brief.
The writer The writer The writer The writer The writer lacks
demonstrates full demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates understanding of the
command of the knowledge of the sufficient control of minimal control of conventions of
conventions of conventions of the conventions of the conventions of written English. 5
written English written English. written English. written English. Errors are pervasive.
language. No errors Errors are minor and Errors may interfere Errors are frequent The response is
are evident. do not interfere with with meaning, but and interfere with incomplete or too
meaning. are not distracting. meaning. brief.
TOTAL POINTS: 20
Student: Katia Mulon