Technical Writing

Wiseman—WR227 Written Assignment Scoring Guide

Score of 60, Superior

 Shows exceptional audience analysis as evidenced by writing style and document design (and graphics, if needed)

 Shows clarity, accuracy, and completeness of thought

 Demonstrates clear, focused, unified, and coherent organization throughout

 Is effectively developed and detailed without unneeded details

 Writing and document design show superior control of diction, syntactic clarity, and transitions

Score of 50, Strong

 Shows good audience analysis as evidenced by writing style and document design (and graphics, if needed)

 Shows clarity, accuracy, and completeness of thought; may have minor omissions

 Is effectively organized

 Is well developed with supporting details

 Demonstrates control of diction, syntactic variety, and transitions; might have a few flaws in grammar or syntax

Score of 40, Competent

 Shows adequate audience analysis as evidenced by writing style and document design (and graphics, if needed); may seem difficult to read in sections or have some flaws in document design

 Shows generally acceptable clarity of thought but might lack needed details or support

 Is generally organized, although some transitions might be missing

 Is adequately developed and has most of the needed details

 Demonstrates competent writing and document design, with some flaws

Score of 30, Weak

 Might distort of neglect part of audience analysis

 Might be unclear or incomplete in wording or design elements

 Might demonstrate problems in organization

 Might have generalizations without supporting details; or could have supporting details without generalizations; document might be undeveloped

 Document shows patterns of flaws in grammar, syntax, language mechanics

Score of 20, Inadequate

 Document shows serious inadequacies in one or more of the areas specified for 30-point document

 Is so incompletely developed as to suggest a lack of audience analysis  Is wholly unreadable mechanically—misspellings, punctuation errors are everywhere

Rubric design adapted from Edward M. White, Assigning, Responding, Evaluating 4 th

ed. Boston: Bedford. 2007.