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Salutation and Closing
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Letter is missing salutation
and/or closing and signature.
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Salutation and closing
have multiple errors in capitalization and/or spelling.
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Salutation and closing
have few errors in capitalization and/or spelling.
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Salutation and closing
have no, or almost no errors in capitalization and spelling.
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Conventions
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Letter does not follow
grammatical conventions,and contains so many errors
in punctuation and/or spelling that reader can't understand
what student has written.
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Sentences contain multiple
grammatical errors, and incorrect uses of punctuation
and/or spelling, causing reader to have a hard time
following what student has written.
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Letter has several
grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors, but can
be followed and understood by reader.
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Letter displays proper
grammar, contains few errors in punctuation and spelling,
and shows student's understanding and use of the conventional
rules of writing.
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Organization
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Letter does not have
a logical order or sequence of information, which makes
it almost impossible for reader to follow it.
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Letter is very loosely
ordered, and so the jumbled sequence of information
presented makes it difficult for the reader to understand.
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Letter has some questionable
logic to its order, but is basically sequenced so the
reader can follow it.
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Letter is logically
sequenced, and presented in an orderly way that the
reader understands.
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Completeness
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Letter is missing more
than two of the requested pieces of information, and
writing offers almost no detail.
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Letter is missing one
or two of the requested pieces of information, and only
a few details.
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Letter contains only
the requested information, but offers no additional
ideas or details.
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Letter contains all
the requested information, with student adding additional
ideas and details to enrich the letter's content.
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Content Knowledge
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Student understands
neither the subject, its concepts, nor the requirements
of a friendly letter, and so can't write one as needed.
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Student has only a
bit of comprehension of the subject and concepts involved,
and so produces a basic letter with very little of the
details or descriptions needed.
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Student has a decent
understanding of the subject, but only includes a small
amount of detail and description of the elements that
are needed in the letter.
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Student has a thorough
knowledge of the subject, evident in the letter through
elaborate detail and description of elements such as
objects, people, events and ideas.
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Total---->
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