Fluency The essay includes at least five The essay includes five The essay does not include five well-developed paragraphs. paragraphs, but they are not paragraphs or the choppiness The sentences are easy to well-developed or the language of the language distracts from follow and help to make the is choppy. meaning. essay understandable. Development The essay includes a clear claim The essay includes a relatively The essay lacks a clear claim or that closely connects to the clear claim. Some pieces of does not seem to connect the evidence. It includes specific, evidence support the claim. claim to the evidence. It lacks well-chosen evidence that There is a counterclaim, but the evidence or does not support supports the claim. It includes rebuttal does not support the the claim at all. There is no a counterclaim and logical claim. The interpretation may acknowledgement of rebuttal. The interpretation not make sense or does not counterclaims. The makes sense and clearly clearly support the claim. interpretation does not make supports the claim. sense and does not support the claim. Organization The essay includes body The essay is organized in a The essay does not include paragraphs in the most reasonable order to support organize body paragraphs in a appropriate order to support the claim. The transitions particular order to provide the claim. The transitions might make the essay easier to clear support for the claim. The between examples and read. transitions between examples paragraphs make for smooth and between paragraphs are reading. choppy and distract from meaning. Editing/Correctness The essay is essentially error The essay includes occasional The essay includes multiple free. There is a sense of careful errors. Some sense of editing is errors. Little or sense of editing editing. obvious. is present. MLA/Citations The essay is formatted in MLA This essay has some errors in The essay in not in MLA format perfectly. There are no citation MLA formatting. There may be and/or has more than 5 errors. citation errors as well. citations errors.