Dear Dr. Hartman, When I started writing my first draft, writing it was easy.

Since it was about my personal life I could easily write about it. I enjoyed rethinking about the little moments in my life that has helped make me the person I am today. What I feel like I need some help with is with intros and conclusions in the writing. I also feel like I need help figuring out how to make my writing have more risks. How I feel about my writing draft is that I am able to get the basic idea of what I am needing to write, I just can not figure out how to make my writing standout to become greater than what is required that is why for my choices I have chosen Proficient. I feel my writing is good enough and I read my writing out loud to my friends and did not have any awkward pauses of other things like that. Please enjoy my writing. Sincerely, Jon Marc Wyatt

Criteria PROCESS

Exemplary Process work is present and provides robust evidence that student has participated; Clear evidence of strong idea development; Robust evidence of revision (changes in drafts) is clearly present

Proficient Process work is present and evidence of participation is clear; Evidence of idea development is present; Evidence of effective revision is clearly present

Developing Some evidence of process work; Attempts at idea development, but ideas are lacking in some way; Little evidence of revision is present

Lacking Participation in process work, development of ideas, and/or evidence of revision is incomplete or insufficient

As a working draft, piece shows:

RHETORICAL KNOWLEDGE

As a working draft, piece shows:

Writer has fulfilled the assignment beyond expectations; Exceptionally clear purpose; Excellent attention to audience through word choice and vivid details of ideas

Writer has clearly fulfilled the assignment; Clear purpose; Good attention to audience through word choice and vivid details of ideas

Writer has fulfilled the assignment; Purpose is hard to decipher or not yet clear; Little evidence of attention to audience due to too abstract or nonspecific details

This aspect of the piece is incomplete/ insufficient. Work shows little to no evidence of rhetorical knowledge

CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING GROWTH

As a working draft, piece shows:

Exceptional use of tone and voice; Robust attempts to be appealing and interesting according to audience and purpose; Writer clearly is taking risks; Reflective letter is included and clearly addresses these aspects of piece

Clear attempts to use tone and voice; Clear attempts to be appealing and interesting according to audience and purpose; Writer is taking some risks; Reflective letter is included and sufficiently addresses these aspects of piece Good wording and phrasing; Little to no issues in readability; Writer displays control over mechanics, grammar, and usage

Writer is struggling to use/understand tone and voice, to create interesting writing, and/or to take risks; Reflective letter is missing or does not clearly addresses these aspects of piece

Write made little to no attempts to present critical thinking or writing growth; No reflective letter included

KNOWLEDGE OF CONVENTIONS

As a working draft, piece shows:

Exceptional and adept wording and phrasing; Little to no issues in readability; Writer displays clear control over mechanics, grammar, and usage

Some or repeated issues with awkward or ineffective wording/phrasing; Writer displays lack of control over mechanics, grammar, and usage, causing issues in readability

Glaring issues/errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and other conventions; Piece is difficult to read; Little to no attention has been given to conventions of writing