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Story Writing : Rhetorical Devices Reflection Essay

Teacher Name: Choi

Student Name:     ________________________________________

CATEGORY 4 3
INTRODUCTION First paragraph has a "grabber" First paragraph has a weak
or catchy beginning. "grabber".

WRITING PROCESS Student devotes a lot of time
and effort to the writing
process (prewriting, drafting,
reviewing, and editing). Works
hard to make the story
wonderful.
Student devotes sufficient time
and effort to the writing
process (prewriting, drafting,
reviewing, and editing). Works
and gets the job done.

ORGANIZATION The story is very well The story is pretty well

organized. One idea or scene organized. One idea or scene
follows another in a logical may seem out of place. Clear
sequence with clear transitions. transitions are used.

SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, AND There are no spelling or There is one spelling or

GRAMMAR punctuation or grammatical punctuation or grammatical
errors in the final draft. error in the final draft.
Character and place names that
the author invented are spelled
consistently throughout.
NEATNESS The final draft of the story is The final draft of the story is
readable, clean, and neat. It is readable, and neat. It may have
free of erasures and crossed- one or two erasures, but they
out words. are not distracting.

DEFINE Definition of rhetorical devices Definition written in student’s

written in student’s own words, own words, reflects proper
concise and reflects proper understanding, but could be
understanding more concise

EXPRESSION Expresses exceptional Expresses good explanation of

explanation of student's student's experience, engaging
experience, creative and in storytelling, could go more in
engaging in storytelling detail

Date Created: October 12, 2021

Devices Reflection Essay

2 1
A catchy beginning was No attempt was made to catch
attempted but was confusing the reader's attention in the
rather than catchy. first paragraph.

Student devotes some time and Student devotes little time and
effort to the writing process effort to the writing process.
but was not very thorough. Doesn't seem to care.
Does enough to get by.

The story is a little hard to Ideas and scenes seem to be

follow. The transitions are randomly arranged.
sometimes not clear.

There are 2-3 spelling and The final draft has more than 3
punctuation and grammatical spelling and punctuation and
errors in the final draft. grammatical errors.
The final draft of the story is
readable and some of the
pages are attractive. It looks
like parts of it might have been
done in a hurry.
The final draft is not neat. It
looks like the student just
wanted to get it done and
didn't care what it looked like.

Definition written in student’s Definition written in student’s

own words, not concise enough own words, roughly done and
to reflect understanding little effort shown OR Definition
missing OR Definition
plagiarized from PDF or other
Internet source WILL RESULT IN
ZERO POINTS.

Expresses basic explanation of Little to no explanation of

student's experience, lacking in student's experience
engaging factor