Scoring Rubric for Writing

NO COMPONENTS RANGE DESCRIPTION

1 CONTENT 30 – 27 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: related ideas

26 – 22 GOOD: occasionally unrelated ideas

21 – 17 FAIR TO POOR: very often unrelated ideas

16 – 13 VERY POOR: irrelevant ideas

2 ORGANIZATION 20 – 18 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: effective and well
organized
17 – 14
GOOD: occasionally ineffective, weak transition and
13 – 10 incomplete organization

9–7 FAIR TO POOR: lack organization

VERY POOR: little or no organization

3 VOCABULARY 20 – 18 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: effective word choice

17 – 14 GOOD: mostly effective word choice

13 – 10 FAIR TO POOR: frequently error in word choice

9–7 VERY POOR: mostly ineffective word choice

4 LANGUAGE USE 25 – 22 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: grammatically correct

21 – 18 GOOD: mostly grammatically correct

17 – 11 FAIR TO POOR: frequently error in grammar

10 – 5 VERY POOR: very often error in grammar

5 MECHANICS 5 EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: few errors in spelling,
punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing
4
GOOD: occasionally errors in spelling, punctuation,
3 capitalization, paragraphing

2 FAIR TO POOR: frequent errors in spelling, punctuation,

capitalization, paragraphing

VERY POOR: dominated by errors in spelling, punctuation,

capitalization, paragraphing
TOTAL SCORE