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Purpose
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Writing Lacks a cohesive purpose and deviates from the subject.
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Writing focuses on major topics to create purpose but deviates to other topics more than once within the piece.
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Writing focuses on major topics to create purpose but deviates from the topic at least once within the piece.
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Writing focus is on topic and creates a clear purpose.
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Organization
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Writing is presented without regard for order and rambles, confusing the reader.
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An attempt has been made to provide order but the sequence is difficult to follow.
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Writing is presented with only minor lapses in logical order that does not detract from the overall story.
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Writing is presented in an order that makes sense and the reader can follow.
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Strong Words, Sensory Details, Show not Tell
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Writing is lacking any strong word choices, sensory details and there are no show moments.
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An attempt has been made at using strong words, sensory details, but not enough to show the story and not tell the story.
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Strong words and sensory details are present in some areas of the writing but there are areas where the writer is still telling the story and not showing.
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Strong words and senory details are everywhere; creating a rich, visual, and engaging piece that places the reader in the story.
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Tie-in Moment
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Writing is lacking a connection.
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An attempt has been made at connecting the story together but subjet deviates from topic so connection is lost.
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Connection is made with part of the story.
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Conneciton is made with whole story.
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Construction
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Too much necessary info and too much irrelevant info left in, construction lacks interesting form to hold readers attention.
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Some necessary info and some irrelevant info left in, construciton lacking form.
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All necessary info included, some irrelevant; writing shoes some use of interesting form.
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Writing contains all necessary info and form is interesting to hold readers attention throughout piece.
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