MLA Letter Rubric

Student Name:
Letter Topic:

Goal/Thesis

Reasons
&
Support

Organization

Mechanics
&
Grammar

Comments:

Strongly and
Clearly states a
Person opinion is
clearly states a
Personal opinion is
personal opinion
not easily
personal opinion.
not clearly states.
and somewhat
understood. Has no
Clearly identifies
Little or connection
references a
reference to a
an issue related to
to a provincial
provincial
provincial
provincial
government issue
government issue,
government issue.
government
Several excellent
points are made
Points are made
with solid
with support, but
Points or reasons
Arguments or
supporting reasons.
arguments are
provided show
reasons are weak,
It is evident the
somewhat weak in some thought, but
irrelevant, or
student put
places. The writer are mostly weak or
missing.
thought and
doesnt persuade
irrelevant
research into their
completely.
letter.
Sentences and
Little or no
paragraphs are
Sentence and
Sentence and
evidence of
complete, well-
paragraph
paragraph
sentence or
written, and varied.
structure are
structure is
paragraph
Letter format has
generally correct
inconsistent
structure
been fully followed.
Contains several
Contains many
Contains many
Contains few, if any
errors in
punctuation,
punctuation,
punctuation,
pumctuation,
spelling, and/or
spelling, and/or
spelling, or
spelling, or
grammatical
grammatical
grammatical
grammar that do
errors that
errors that make
errors
not interfere with
interfere with
the writing illegible
meaning.
meaning