News Writing Applicant Score Sheet

Evaluator: Ayleen van Oosten

Criteria Very Good Good Fair Poor Score

5 4 3 2
Content The article has The article has The article has There were no 2 it was
greatly explained explained and explained and facts at all. The completly
and expanded the expanded the expanded the story author made no based on the
story through story through but lack support attempts to OWN
facts and facts and from facts. research the topic. opinion of
research. research. the writter
Structure The article has a The article has a The article doesn’t The article has one 3 it looks
clear intro, body clear intro, body have a clear intro, big paragraph. The amazing
and conclusion and conclusion body and intro, body and however the
with transitions. w/out transitions. conclusion. conclusion are lay-out
difficult to see. could have
been better
devided in
chapters
from book
to book
cause right
now it is one
big
paragraph
 without any
dept
Grammar & The sentences are The sentences Some sentences Sentences are 5 seen no
Sentence easy to are easy to are unclear and a often unclear and errors so far
Structure understand. No understand. Few little difficult to difficult to
grammatical grammatical understand. Some understand. Many
mistakes. mistakes. grammatical grammatical
mistakes. mistakes.
Story The story is very The story is good The story is fair The story is still 4
interesting and and some areas and only a few developing and
well-thought out. are well thought areas are well not well thought
out. thought out. out.