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CATEGORY Excellent - 4 Good - 3 Satisfactory - 2 Needs Improvement - 1

Student devoted little
Student devoted a lot of Student devoted Student devoted some
time and effort to the
THE WRITING time and effort to the adequate time and effort time and effort to the
writing process. It
PROCESS / writing process and to the writing process writing process but was
appears that the student
worked hard to make the and worked to get the not very thorough. Does
does not care about the
EFFORT poem a good read. The job done. The poem may enough to get by. There
assignment. The poem
poem has no errors. have one or two errors. are several errors.
has many errors.
The final draft of the
The final draft of the
poem is readable, neat The final draft of the
poem is readable, clean, The final draft is not neat
and attractive. It may poem is readable and
neat and attractive. It is or attractive. It looks like
have one or two some of the pages are
NEATNESS free of erasures and the student just wanted
erasures, but they are attractive. It looks like
crossed-out words. It to get it done and didn’t
not distracting. It looks parts of it might have
looks like the author took care what it looked like.
like the author took some been done in a hurry.
great pride in it.
pride in it.
The poem is written with The poem is written with
The poem is written The poem lacks style
a great sense of style. a defined with style.
somewhat with style. and the thoughts did not
STYLE The poem has been well Thoughts are clear to
Thoughts are clear to a come out clearly on
thought out and makes read and
degree. paper.
sense to the reader. understandable.
The poem is filled with The poem lacks
The poem includes many The poem includes some
descriptive vocabulary description and does not
VOCABULARY descriptive elements and descriptive words and
that appeals to the allow the reader to
is appealing. phrases.
reader. visualize the poem.

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