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Criterion	1	2	3	4	5	Any Score
Organization	Serious Disorganization	Inadequately organized	Satisfactory	Generally well organized	Well organized	Any Score
Address topic	Barely addresses the topic	Tangentially addresses the topic	Addresses the topic adequately	Addresses the topic well	Persuasively addresses the topic	Any Score
Coherence	No connection of ideas	Inadequate connection of ideas	Coherence but connection of ideas may occasionally be obscured	Coherence but contains occasional redundancy, digression, or unclear connections	Displays coherence	Any Score
Development of Argument	Not developed	Limited Development	Uses somewhat developed explanations	Developed though contains occasional redundancy, digression, or unclear connections	Well developed	Any Score
Progress of Writing	No progress	Weak	Limited	Good	Strong	Any Score
Details	Little or no detail	Inappropriate or insufficient details	Uses details	Uses appropriate and sufficient details	Uses clearly appropriate details	Any Score
Explanation	No explanations	Inappropriate or insufficient explanations	Uses explanations	Uses appropriate and sufficient explanations	Uses clearly appropriate explanations	Any Score
Range of vocabulary	No range	Little range	Limited range	Demonstrates range	Wide range	Any Score
Word choice	Grossly inappropriate	Noticably inappropriate	inconsistent	appropriate	Mostly accurate	Any Score
Word forms	Extreme errors	Noticable errors	Inconsistent use	Minor errors	Mostly accurate use	Any Score
Spelling	Many errors of basic words	Some errors of basic words	Few errors of common words	Some errors of advanced words	Few errors of advanced words	Any Score
Idiomaticity	No idioms	Some (perhaps inappropriate) idioms. Major errors	Effective idioms; Major errors	Effective idioms; Minor errors	Demonstrates variety of idioms	Any Score
Sentence formation	No facility	Weak facility	Inconsistent facility	Consistent facility	Strong facility	Any Score
Grammar	Frequent serious errors	Frequent significant errors	Infrequent common errors	Frequent minor errors	Infrequent minor errors	Any Score
Paragraph structure	No facility	Weak facility	Inconsistent facility	Consistent facility	Strong facility	Any Score

Criterion	1	2	3	4	5	Any Score
Key points	None or only one out of a possible six Reading and Lecture points are mentioned	Only two or three out of a possible six Reading and Lecture points are clearly & accurately mentioned	Only four out of a possible six Reading and Lecture points are clearly & accurately mentioned	Only five out of a possible six Reading and Lecture points are clearly & accurately mentioned	All three Reading points and all three Lecture points are clearly & accurately mentioned	Any Score
Content	Incoherent content	Most relevant information is missing or inaccurate	Some important information missing or inaccurate	Good in selecting important information. Minor omission, inaccuracy, vagueness, or imprecision	Successfully selects the important information from the lecture.	Any Score
Organization	Almost none	Very disorganized or the organization is confusing or inconsistent	Slightly disorganized or the organization is ineffective	Well -Organized	Coherently and accurately organized	Any Score
Language (tone, voice, paraphrasing, run-ons)	Difficult to derive any meaning or is continuously redundant	Consistently obscures understanding of key ideas or is frequently redundant	Frequent errors that may obscure meanings or is occasionally redundant	Frequent minor errors that do not result in anything more than occasionally obscure meaning	Occasional language errors that do not result in inaccurate or imprecise presentation of content or connections	Any Score
Lexicon (word choice, word form, word variety, idiom)	Inappropriate or redundant	Often inappropriate or redundant	Inconsistent	Mostly appropriate with some variety	Appropriate and varied	Any Score
Punctuation	Rarely correct	Frequently incorrect	Inconsistent	Mostly correct	Almost always correct	Any Score
Spelling	Rarely Correct	Frequently incorrect	Inconsistent	Mostly correct	Almost always correct	Any Score
Connection of ideas	Few relevant connection	Omits, truncates or implies connections	Presents connections. But they are vague, global, unclear, or imprecise.	Minor omissions, inaccurate, vague, or imprecise.	Accurately presents the Lecture's information in relation to the relevant information presented in the Reading	Any Score
Grammar	Rarely correct	Frequently incorrect	Inconsistent	Mostly correct	Almost always correct	Any Score

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