6.

0 – Outstanding:
_____________________
A well-articulated critique of the argument/issue, demonstrating mastery of
effective writing, and displaying the following characteristics:

Clearly identifies and analyzes the most important features of the argument with
deep insight.
Develops cogent ideas, organizes them logically, and connects them properly without
sudden transitions.
Supports the main points of the critique strongly.
Demonstrates superior control of the English language, including diction, sentence
formation, spelling, grammar and syntactic variety used in standard written
English.
Few to no flaws in the essay.

5.0 – Strong
______________________
A well-developed critique of the argument, demonstrating good control of writing,
and displaying the following characteristics:

Clearly identifies the important features of the argument and analyzes them
thoughtfully.
Develops ideas clearly, and connects them logically, with appropriate transitions.
Gives a very sensible support to the main points of the critique.
Has clear control of language, including diction and syntactic variety
May have minor flaws like spelling errors, but no major flaws.

4.0 – Adequate
________________________
A satisfactory critique of the given argument, demonstrating decent control of
writing, and displaying the following characteristics:

Capable of Identifying and analyzing the main features of the argument.

Develops and organizes ideas satisfactorily, but some important connections and
transitions may be missing.
Supports the main points of the critique.
Demonstrates sufficient control of language, but may lack syntactic variety.
May have many minor flaws or some major flaws.

3.0 – Limited
________________________
A satisfactory essay with clearly flawed critique of the argument, demonstrating
little control of the elements of writing, and displaying the following
characteristics:

Does not identify or analyze many of the important features of the argument.
Has limited logical development and no proper organization of ideas.
Offers support of little relevance and value for points of the critique
Uses language imprecisely and/or lacks sentence variety
Contains occasional major errors or frequent minor errors in grammar, usage, and
mechanics

2.0 – Seriously Flawed

________________________
An unsatisfactory essay with serious weakness in analytical writing skills, and
displaying the following characteristics:
Demonstrates no understanding of the main features of the argument.
Almost no analyses of the main points have been made.
Does not develop any ideas or is disorganized
Provides nil to few relevant evidences.
Has frequent serious problems in the use of language, grammar, spelling, and
sentence structure.

1.0 – Fundamentally Deficient

______________________________
An essay full of fundamental deficiencies in analytical writing skills, and
displaying the following characteristics:

Provides little to no evidence of the ability to understand and analyze the main
idea.
Failure to develop an organized response.
Contains severe and persistent errors in language and sentence structure
Has an unusually frequent pattern of errors in grammar, usage, and logic.
A totally incoherent response.
0.0 – Unscorable
A paper that is totally illegible or obviously not written on the assigned topic. A
score of zero is given to responses that come under one of the following cases:

The responses are off topic.

The responses are written in a language other than English.
The responses are a mere copy of the given topic.
The responses consist only of random keystroke characters.
No response.
So, it is safe to say that if you write at least a few sentences in English, you
will get a score of 1.0. But rest assured, no university under the sun will accept
a score that low.