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Purpose, Focus, and Organization

The response is fully sustained and consistently focused within purpose, audience, and task ; and it has clear controlling idea and effective organizational structure creating coherence and completeness. The response includes most of the following:

•        Strongly maintained controlling idea with little or no loosely related material

•        Skillful use of a variety of transitional strategies t o clarify the relationships between and among ideas

•        Logical progression of ideas from beginning to end with a satisfying introduction and conclusion

•        Appropriate style and tone established and maintained

 

 

Focus and Purpose

The extent to which the response establishes and maintains a thesis/ controlling idea, demonstrates a clear understanding of purpose and audience, and completes all parts of the task.

  • Demonstrates a thorough and insightful understanding of the task, purpose, and audience .
  • Establishes and maintains a clearly focused thesis/controlling idea throughout the response.
  • Completes all parts of the task and may go beyond the limits of the task.

 

Organization

The extent to which the response demonstrates a cohesive and unified structure , paragraphing, and transitional strategies that clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

•        Very effectively demonstrates a cohesive and unified structure that supports the argument with an engaging introduction and a strong conclusion.

•        Uses effective and skillful paragraphing and transitional strategies throughout.

 

Evidence and Elaboration

The response provides thorough and convincing support, citing evidence for controlling or main idea that includes the effective use of sources, facts, and details. The response includes most of the following:

  • Smoothly integrated, thorough, and relevant evidence, including precise references to sources
  • Effective use of a variety of elaborative techniques( including , but not limited to definitions, quotations, and examples ) demonstrating an understanding of the topic and text
  • Clear and effective expression of ideas, using precise language
  • Academic and domain-specific vocabulary clearly appropriate for the audience and purpose
  • Varied sentence structure , demonstrating language facility

 

Content Development/Elaboration

The extent to which the response develops ideas by integrating specific, relevant support and/or source-based evidence (e.g., concrete details, facts, examples, quotes, statistics, and explanations).

 

  • Develops ideas by adeptly integrating specific details and/or citing credible, source-based evidence to support the thesis/controlling idea.
  • Uses a variety of elaborative techniques.

 

 

 

Language, Use, Voice, and Style

The extent to which the response establishes and consistently maintains a style and tone appropriate to the audience, demonstrates effective control of language, and uses domain-specific word choice and varied sentence structure.

•        Demonstrates a very effectively style, precise control of language , domain-specific word choice , and a well- defined sense of audience .

•        Uses well-structured and varied sentences .

 

 

Conventions of Standard English

The response demonstrates an adequate command of basic conventions. The response may include the following:

·  Some minor errors in usage but no patterns of errors

·  Adequate use of punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling.

 

Mechanics and Conventions

The extent to which the response demonstrates control of mechanics and conventions, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

•        Contains few or no errors in grammar, mechanics, punctuation and spelling.