Descriptive+Essay+Scoring+Rubric


 * **Score of 6:** || Score of 6: Excellent
 * Develops ideas well and uses many specific, relevant details throughout the essay.
 * Is well organized with clear transitions; maintains focus.
 * Sustains varied sentence structure.
 * Exhibits many specific word choices.
 * Contains little or no errors in grammar and conventions; errors do not interfere with understanding. ||
 * **Score of 5:** || Score of 5: Skillful
 * Develops ideas with some specific, relevant details.
 * Is clearly organized; information is presented in an orderly way, but essay may lack transitions.
 * Exhibits some variety in sentence structure.
 * Displays some specific word choices.
 * May contain some errors in grammar and conventions; errors do not interfere with understanding. ||
 * **Score of 4:** || Score of 4: Sufficient
 * Provides clear ideas, but sparsely developed; may have few details.
 * Provides a clear sequence of information; provides pieces of information that are generally related to each other.
 * Generally has simple sentences; may exhibit uneven control over sentence structure.
 * Consists mainly of simple word choices, but may contain some specific word choices.
 * Contains errors in grammar and conventions that generally do not interfere with understanding. ||
 * **Score of 3:** || Score of 3: Uneven
 * Provides limited or incomplete information; may be list-like or have the quality of an outline.
 * Is disorganized or provides a disjointed sequence of information.
 * Exhibits uneven control over sentence structure.
 * May have some inaccurate word choices.
 * Contains errors in grammar and conventions that sometimes interfere with understanding. ||
 * **Score of 2:** || Score of 2: Insufficient
 * Provides little information and makes little attempt at development.
 * Is very disorganized or too brief to detect organization.
 * Exhibits little control over sentence structure.
 * Contains inaccurate word choices in much of the essay.
 * Is characterized by misspellings, missing words, and incorrect word order; errors in grammar and conventions are severe enough to make understanding very difficult in much of the essay. ||
 * **Score of 1:** || Score of 1: Unsatisfactory
 * Attempts a response, but may only paraphrase the prompt or be extremely brief.
 * Exhibits no control over organization.
 * Exhibits no control over sentence structure.
 * Contains inaccurate word choices throughout most of the essay.
 * Is characterized by misspellings, missing words, and incorrect word order; errors in grammar and conventions severely impede understanding throughout the essay. ||
 * Attempts a response, but may only paraphrase the prompt or be extremely brief.
 * Exhibits no control over organization.
 * Exhibits no control over sentence structure.
 * Contains inaccurate word choices throughout most of the essay.
 * Is characterized by misspellings, missing words, and incorrect word order; errors in grammar and conventions severely impede understanding throughout the essay. ||