ESSAYPRACTICE AND PERFORM THESE EVALUATIONS, THE BETTER YOU’LLUSE THE...
Section 1: Essaypractice and perform these evaluations, the better you’llUse the following rubric to evaluate your writing. Thisunderstand exactly what your scorers are looking for.practice essay is included so you can work on time man-6
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Demonstrates outstanding writing skills■
Includes a clear and insightful point of view on the question and reflects excellent critical think-ing, using strong examples and other evidence to support this point of view■
Contains a strong organization and focus, a clear sense of unity, and a skillful flow of ideas■
Demonstrates a strong command of language, with varied and appropriate word choice, andmeaningful variation in sentence structure■
Contains few, if any, errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics5■
Demonstrates effective writing skills■
Includes a clear point of view on the question and reflects strong critical thinking, using goodexamples and other evidence to support this point of view■
Contains strong organization and focus, a sense of unity, and a flow of ideas■
Demonstrates a good command of language, with appropriate word choices and variation insentence structure■
Contains few errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics4■
Demonstrates competent writing skills, but the quality of the writing may be inconsistent■
Includes a point of view on the question and reflects competent critical thinking, using sufficientexamples to support this point of view■
Contains a general organizational plan and focus, with some unity and flow of ideas■
appropriate word choice and some variation in sentence structure■
Contains some errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics3■
Demonstrates inadequate, but not incompetent, writing skills■
Includes a point of view on the question, reflecting some critical thinking, but this point of viewmay be inconsistent or incomplete, and support may be lacking■
Contains a limited organizational strategy and focus, with a weak or inconsistent sense of unityand flow of ideas■
Demonstrates a developing but weak command of language, with weak or inappropriate vocabu-lary, little or no variation in sentence structure, and may contain errors in sentence construction2■
Demonstrates limited writing skills and may contain serious flaws■
Includes a limited or vague point of view on the question and reflects poor critical thinking,using inadequate or irrelevant examples or other support■
Displays a weak sense of organization and/or focus, and may lack unity and/or flow of ideas■
Demonstrates an inadequate command of language, with limited or incorrect vocabulary, andincorrect or flawed sentence structure■
Contains serious errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics that may make the writing difficult tounderstand1■
Demonstrates incompetence in writing and contains serious flaws■
Does not contain a point of view on the question, or provides little or no support for the pointof view■
Lacks organization and/or focus, unity, and a flow of ideas■
Contains serious errors in vocabulary and sentence structure■
Contains serious errors in grammar, usage, and/or mechanics that make the writing difficult to0■
An essay that does not answer the question, or is blank, receives a zero.(Adapted from The College Board)Here are examples of a couple of essays written on therending anguish, as she holds her dead baby. A sol-assignment:dier lies dead on the ground, clutching his brokensword, and three other people are shown in shockand agony. Animals, including a tortured horse andYou might think a memorable picture would havevivid color, an appealing or inspirational theme, or bea crying bird, are also portrayed as innocent victimsof the massacre.something you might want to display and look atevery day. That is not the case with the pictureSome symbols are open to interpretation.What is the meaning of the bull, which seems sim-that is most memorable to me. Rather, it is a largemural, painted in 1937 by the Spanish artist, Pabloply to be observing, or of the light bulb emitting raysat the top of the mural? Does the bull symbolizePicasso, to protest the bombing of a small village innorthern Spain.brute force, and does the light bulb signify thatthere is hope? Yet there is no doubt that the dis-Surprisingly, there is no vivid red color to showthe flowing blood. One must imagine this, for thetorted, horrible images are intended to shock theviewer. This depiction of human grief is a profoundmural is startlingly gray, black, and white. But therestatement of the cruelty and senselessness ofis no avoiding the horror of the images. The figures