Be a star writer! Use this rubric to internalize the characteristics of upper level writing! AP Literature and Composition General Rubric Ms. Faulkner SGHS GRADE Description 9 100-95 These essays are outstanding. They offer creative and original ideas and insights that are extensively elaborated and refreshing. They go beyond general commentary, referring to the texts, explicitly or implicitly, offering specific details (blending quotes where appropriate) to support their analyses; they offer compelling connections between technique and effect. The introduction grabs the reader’s attention, and the writer makes use of transitional sentences and clauses to navigate ideas. The conclusion discusses the significance of the thesis. The writer makes use of sophisticated vocabulary, sentence variety, parallel structure, modification. The language is concise a
A thinking woman's blog