Student’s Name: ____________________________ Subject: __________ Date: ______________

Essay Writing
Criteria Points
4 3 2 1

Presents ideas in
Presents ideas in a Ideas are too Ideas are vague
Ideas an original ______
consistent manner general or unclear
manner
Some
Strong and No organization;
Organized organization;
Organization organized lack ______
beg/mid/end attempt at a
beg/mid/end beg/mid/end
beg/mid/end
Piece was written
Piece was written Piece had no
in an Piece had little
in an interesting style or voice
extraordinary style style or voice
style and voice
Quality of and voice
Gives no new ______
Writing Gives some new
Somewhat information and
Very informative information but
informative and very poorly
and well- poorly organized
organized organized
organized
So many
Virtually no A number of spelling,
Few spelling and
Grammar, spelling, spelling, punctuation and
punctuation errors,
Usage & punctuation or punctuation or grammatical ______
minor grammatical
Mechanics grammatical grammatical errors that it
errors
errors errors interferes with
the meaning
Acknowledges
Acknowledges all Acknowledges
some source; Does not cite
sources properly; few sources;
Academic sources/forgot
______
Honesty Plagiarism is more to reflect
Plagiarism is Gross incidents of
than the allowable sources
within 20%range. plagiarized items.
plagiarism range.

Total Points