ESSAY RUBRIC

Features Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner

25% 20% 15% 10%
Quality of Piece was Piece was Piece had little Piece had no
Writing written in an written in an style or voice style or voice
extraordinary interesting style
style and voice and voice Gives some new Gives no new
information but information
Very Somewhat poorly and very poorly
informative and informative and organized organized
well-organized organized

Grammar, Virtually no Few spelling A number of So many

Usage & spelling, and spelling, spelling,
Mechanics punctuation or punctuation punctuation or punctuation
grammatical errors, minor grammatical and
errors grammatical errors grammatical
errors errors that it
interferes with
the meaning