Persuasive Writing Letter Rubric

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Criteria 1 2 3 4
Writing is
Writing is mostly Writing is clear
Writing is not clear somewhat clear
clear and and organized.
or organized. Hard and organized.
Organization organized Easy to Very easy to
to follow. Sometimes hard to
follow. follow.
follow.

Main argument is Main argument is Main argument is

Main Main argument is
somewhat unclear mostly clear and very clear and
unclear and hard
and somewhat fairly easy to easy to
Argument/ to understand.
hard to understand. understand. understand.

Opinion
Reasons and Reasons and Reasons and Reasons and
Reasons and examples do not examples examples mostly examples very
support the main somewhat support support the main clearly support the
Examples argument. the main argument. argument. main argument.

Argument does not Argument shows Argument shows Argument shows

show clear somewhat clear mostly clear clear
understanding of understanding of understanding of understanding of
Audience
the audience. the audience. the audience. the audience.
Never uses capital Sometimes uses Mostly uses capital Always uses capital
letters, punctuation capital letters, letters, punctuation letters, punctuation
or indents punctuation and and indents and indents
paragraphs. Many indents paragraphs. paragraphs. Very paragraphs. No
Conventions run-on sentences Some run-on few run-on run-on sentences or
and fragments. sentences or sentences or fragments.
fragments. fragments.