Writing Criteria

Evaluation of written work is based on the rubric  developed by the Departments of English and Teacher Education. Scores of 0-4 are earned for each of the following criteria.

  1. Content
  2. Development
  3. Organization
  4. Style
  5. Grammar, Mechanics, and Format

A PDF version of the complete writing rubric is available.

Grades for Writing

The rubric scores translate into percentage grades as follows.

  1. Writing that scores 2 or higher in all five criteria will earn the percentage grade as outlined in Table 1.
  2. Writing that scores a 1 in any of the five criteria will earn a grade of 65 percent.
  3. Writing that scores a 0 in any of the five criteria will earn a grade of 55 percent.
  4. Writing that scores a 0 or 1 in more than one criterion may earn a grade below 55 percent.
Table 1: Writing Rubric Score/Percentage Grade Correlation
Sum of Criteria Scores 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10
Percentage Grade 100 97 95 90 87 85 84 82 80 77 75