 Once peer-editing is complete, have students hand in their essay's.

Now it
is your turn to evaluate the assignment according to the criteria on the
rubric. Make sure to offer students examples if they did not meet the
criteria listed.

Informal Essay Rubric

Features 4 3 2 1
Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner
Quality of Piece was Piece was written Piece had little Piece had no
Writing written in an in an interesting style or voice style or voice
extraordinary style and voice
style and voice Gives some Gives no new
Somewhat new information and
Very informative and information very poorly
informative and organized but poorly organized
well-organized organized
Grammar, Virtually no Few spelling and A number of So many spelling,
Usage & spelling, punctuation errors, spelling, punctuation and
Mechanics punctuation or minor grammatical punctuation or grammatical
grammatical errors grammatical errors that it
errors errors interferes with
the meaning
Formal Essay Rubric
Areas of A B C D
Assessment
Ideas Presents ideas in Presents ideas Ideas are too Ideas are vague
an original in a consistent general or unclear
manner manner
Organization Strong and Organized Some No
organized beg/mid/end organization; organization;
beg/mid/end attempt at a lack
beg/mid/end beg/mid/end
Understanding Writing shows Writing shows a Writing shows Writing shows
strong clear adequate little
understanding understanding understanding understanding
Word Choice Sophisticated Nouns and Needs more Little or no use
use of nouns and verbs make nouns and verbs of nouns and
verbs make the essay verbs
essay very informative
informative
Sentence Sentence Sentence Sentence No sense of
Structure structure structure is structure is sentence
enhances evident; limited; structure or
meaning; flows sentences sentences need flow
throughout the mostly flow to flow
piece
Mechanics Few (if any) Few errors Several errors Numerous
errors errors