Rubric for Writing a Narrative Essay



SHORT STORY RUBRIC |Distinguished 4

|Proficient 3 |Developing 2 |Needs Improvement 1 | |

|Engaging the Audience |Engages the audience with an interesting |Adequately engages the audience |Makes an attempt to engage the audience but|Does not try to engage the audience or |

| |introduction that makes the audience | |is not successful |establish the context of the story |

| |connect with the story and the writer | | | |

|Elements of a Short |Establishes a situation, plot, point of |Provides an adequately developed plot, but|Barely develops the plot; conflict and |The plot is difficult to follow or |

|Story |view, setting, conflict, and resolution |needs more depth with conflict, |resolution are sketchy; more detail needed;|understand and requires further |

| |using careful detail and emotion |resolution, detail, and emotion |emotion minimal |development; lacks conflict and |

| | | | |resolution; minimal detail/emotion |

|Organization |Balances and unifies all narrative |Shows a clear attempt at balancing and |Shows minimal effort to balance and unify |There is little or no organization |

| |elements required in an essay; chronology |unifying the story; chronology of events |the story; chronology of events confusing |present; chronology of events not present|

| |of events very clear |evident | | |

|Style and Fluency |The ideas are clearly and effectively |Most ideas are clearly expressed; writing |Some ideas may not be clearly expressed; |Many ideas are difficult to understand; |

| |developed; writing is fluent and polished |is generally fluent, with some use of |fluency and transitions may be lacking; |fluency and transitions are lacking; few |

| |with effective verbs, adjectives, and |effective verbs, adjectives, and |infrequent use of effective, verbs, |effective verbs, adjectives, and |

| |transitions; thesis clear |transitions; thesis adequate |adjectives, and transitions; thesis unclear|transitions; no thesis |

|Grammar, Editing, |Demonstrates mastery of the rules of the |Makes good attempt to revise/edit with |Efforts to revise/edit are made but with |Shows little to no evidence of |

|Revising, and |English Language including punctuation, |only a few errors in punctuation, |many errors in punctuation, spelling, |proofreading, with many punctuation, |

|Proofreading |spelling, and grammar. |spelling, grammar |grammar remaining |spelling, grammatical errors |

|Special Sentence |Effective dialogue incorporated into essay|Dialogue incorporated, but not totally |Minimally effective dialogue and/or not |Ineffective/no dialogue |

|Structures |correctly |effective and/or punctuated correctly |punctuated correctly |No brushstrokes evident |

| |Three different brushstrokes correctly |Two different brushstrokes correctly |One different brushstrokes correctly |Narrator not evident |

| |written, highlighted, and labeled |written, highlighted, and labeled |written, highlighted, and labeled | |

| |3rd person narrative clearly maintained |3rd person narrative maintained adequately|3rd person narrative weak | |

|Format |Meets all of the requirements: |Meets all except one or two requirements: |Meets at least half of the requirements: |Meets less than half of the requirements:|

| |One page |One page |One page |One page |

| |typed, Times New Roman, size 12 |typed, Times New Roman, size 12 |typed, Times New Roman, size 12 |typed, Times New Roman, size 12 |

| |double spaced |double spaced |double spaced |double spaced |

| |MLA heading |MLA heading |MLA heading |MLA heading |

| |correctly punctuated and capitalized |correctly punctuated and capitalized |correctly punctuated and capitalized title|correctly punctuated and capitalized |

| |title |title |pages numbered (MLA format) |title |

| |pages numbered (MLA format) |pages numbered (MLA format) | |pages numbered (MLA format) |

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Grade

Scale

28=98

27=97

26=95

25=93

24=92

23=90

22=88

21=86

20=84

19=82

18=81

17=80

16=78

15=77

14=75

13=74

12=73

11=72

10=68

9=65

8=62

7=60

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