Personal Narrative Story (PLAGIARISM FREE)

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Focus: The clarity with which a paper presents and maintains a clear main idea, point of view, unifying event or theme.

•Subject and unifying event clear and maintained

•Theme/unifying theme explicitly stated

•Reactions present throughout

•Has effective closing

•Subject and unifying event clear and maintained

•Theme/unifying event is stated in opening or conclusion

•Reactions present throughout (may not be even)

•Has closing

•Subject and unifying event are clear - may be prompt dependent (requiring reader inference)

•Theme/unifying event is stated and/or summarized

•Reactions present

•May end abruptly

•Subject/issue vague

•Reader must infer main event and theme

•Unrelated ideas or major drift from focus

•May be insufficient writing

•Subject and issue unclear, limited or confusing

•Insufficient writing to show criteria are met

Support/Elaboration: The degree to which the main point or event is elaborated and explained by specific details, descriptions, and reactions

•Most episodes and reactions elaborated with specific detail

•Some episodes may be developed with more detail than others (not necessarily balanced or even)

•Some episodes or reactions elaborated with specific details

•Contains minimal depth

•May contain list of episodes/events and/or reactions with some extensions

•Most elaboration may be general

•Some attempt at elaboration

•May be confusing, unclear, or repetitive

•May be insufficient writing to determine that elaboration can be maintained.

•Elaboration is absent, confusing, or repetitive

•Insufficient writing to show that criteria are met

Organization: The clarity of the logical flow of ideas (coherence and cohesion)

•Narrative structure clear-sequence of episodes moves logically through time without noticeable gaps

•Episodes appropriately paragraphed

•Coherence and cohesion demonstrated through some appropriate use of devices

•Varied sentence structure produces some cohesion

•Narrative structure is evident – sequence of episodes moves logically through time with a beginning, middle and ending with few gaps

•Most paragraphing and use of transitions is appropriate

•Coherence and cohesion evident; may depend on holistic structure (chronology)

•Narrative structure is noticeable, but the reader may have to infer it-sequence of episodes moves logically through time with some gaps

•Some appropriate paragraphing

•Evidence of coherence may depend on sequence

•If present, transitions may be simplistic or even redundant

•Structure is attempted, but with little success (may be a random presentation of ideas)

•Confusing

•Insufficient writing to determine that organization can be sustained

•Very confusing/little or no attempt at structure

•Insufficient writing to meet criteria

Conventions: Use of standard written English

Uses consistent agreement between parts of speech. No errors in mechanics. Creative and effective use of spelling strategies.

Consistent agreement between parts of speech. Uses correct punctuation, capitalization, etc. Consistent use of spelling strategies.

Maintains agreement between parts of speech. Few errors in mechanics. Applies basic grade level spelling.

Inconsistent agreement between parts of speech. Many errors in mechanics. Limited evidence of spelling strategies.

Parts of speech show lack of agreement. Frequent errors in mechanics. Little or no evidence of spelling strategies.

Integration: Evaluation of the paper based on a global judgment of how the paper as a whole fulfills the assignment

•Fully-developed paper for grade level

•Clear and purposeful Focus; in-depth, balanced elaboration; sequence of episodes is coherently and cohesively developed throughout

•Developed paper for grade level

•All features are not equally well-developed throughout

•Bare-bones-developed paper for grade level

•Simple and clear, presenting nothing more that the essentials

•Limited depth

•Attempts to address the assignment

•Some confusion and/or disjointedness

•May be insufficient writing to determine that the features can be maintained

•Does not fulfill the assignment; barely deals with the topic; or does not present most or all of the features

•Insufficient writing