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Length The letter is 10 or The letter is 8-9 The letter is 5-7 The letter is less more sentences. sentences. sentences. than 5 sentences.
Creativity Shows a Shows a little Shows very little Shows nearly no
significant original thinking original thinking original thinking amount of and a little and very little or thought/effort. original thinking thought and thought and and effort. effort. thoughtfulness. Ideas Ideas were Ideas were Ideas were The letter seemed expressed in a expressed in a somewhat to be a collection clear and pretty clear organized, but of unrelated organized manner, but the were not very sentences. It was fashion. It was organization clear. It took very difficult to easy to figure out could have been more than one figure out what what the journal better. reading to figure the journal was was about. out what the about. journal was about.