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Accomplished Writer
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Proficient Writer
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Satisfactory Writer
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Developing Writer
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Basic Writer
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Ideas and insights on a limited topic
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Offers a fresh take, full of compelling ideas or insights, on a topic that is limited to what is manageable in a five paragraph essay
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Offers logically consistent and sometimes fresh and intriguing ideas or insights on a sufficiently limited topic manageable in a five paragraph essay
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Offers ideas on a topic but the ideas and insights are not particularly fresh or intriguing; the topic may not be sufficiently narrowed for a five paragraph essay
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Offers few ideas or insights on a topic; the topic is probably ill-defined and inappropriately large for a five paragraph essay
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May or may not have a discernible topic; if it does, the topic is probably impossibly large for a five paragraph essay
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Organization
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Is organized so that the connection between each paragraph and the thesis is made transparent, and so that the essay progresses logically and with a sense of inevitability toward its conclusion, which seems fully justified and accounted for by what has come before.
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Is organized so that each paragraph relates clearly to the thesis and so that the essay moves logically toward a conclusion, which follows from what went before.
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Is not always coherently organized; it may not be clear how each paragraph relates to the thesis; the essay moves, perhaps in rambling fashion, toward a conclusion, which may not fully follow from what has gone before.
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Is incoherently organized; may ramble or contain distracting digressions; may or may not have a conclusion. Does not have a clear thesis statement.
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Is lacking in any clear pattern of organization.
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Development
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Is developed with strong and continuous attention to specific detail and in a manner that examines a topic fully and convincingly.
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Is developed with continuous attention to specific detail and in a manner that sufficiently covers a topic.
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Is insufficiently developed; detail is often non-specific; does not do justice to the topic.
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Is notably under-developed; most details are non-specific
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Is extremely under-developed; all or most details are non-specific.
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Grammar, punctuation, and spelling
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Is largely free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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May contain a few errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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Contains a number of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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Contains numerous serious errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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Contains numerous and frequent errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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