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Writing Assessment Program

Holistic Scoring: Scale: 1 (Incoherent)


A score of 1 designates an incoherent piece of expositional or referential writing.

  • Focus: the subject and main idea are unclear; no apparent attempt has been made to limit the topic.

  • Organization: there is no discernible plan; no attempt is made to compose an effective beginning and end.

  • Development: major ideas are not set off by paragraphs; only one, if any, paragraph has a stated or implied topic; little or no supporting detail is used.

  • Style: sentence relationships must be inferred; word choice is often confusing; tone is inappropriate or distracting.

  • Correctness: many varied major and minor errors occur, making the paper difficult to read.

  • *References: source material is never incorporated or incorporated inappropriately or unclearly; documentation is inaccurate.

Sample Essays

Part I topic

Sample 1 for Part I

Part II topic

Sample 1 for Part II

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Last Updated 28 January 2008

by Dave Reinheimer

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