Dear Dr. Larson (Poor)

Name:

Title:

Ideas

The writing . . .

• includes a clear, effective opinion statement.
• provides a variety of reasons to support the opinion statement.
• effectively answers objections.

Organization

• begins well by capturing the reader’s interest and providing the opinion statement.
• effectively organizes the middle part.
• focuses on one main reason in each middle paragraph.
• ends well by reviewing the reasons and revisiting the opinion statement.

Voice

• shows that the writer cares about the topic.
• uses an appropriate emotional tone.

Word Choice

• uses precise nouns and active verbs.

Sentence Fluency

• uses a variety of sentence lengths and beginnings.
• flows smoothly from one sentence to another.

Conventions

• uses end punctuation and commas correctly.
• correctly capitalizes first words and proper nouns.
• avoids spelling errors.
• correctly uses words (there, they’re, their).