Tutor List  Add Classes  US Time to Korea Time     Sample Editing  Scoring Guide Score of 6 A typical essay at this level: effectively addresses the writing task is well organized and well developed uses clearly appropriate details to support a thesis or illustrate ideas displays consistent facility in the use of language demonstrates syntactic variety and appropriate word choice, though it may have occasional errors Score of 5 A typical essay at this level: may address some parts of the task more effectively than others is generally well organized and well developed uses details to support a thesis or illustrate idea displays facility in the use of language demonstrates some syntactic variety and range of vocabulary, though it will probably have occasional errors Score of 4 A typical essay at this level: addresses the writing topic adequately but may slight parts of the task is adequately organized and developed uses some details to support a thesis or illustrate an idea demonstrates adequate but possibly inconsistent facility with syntax and usage may contain some errors that occasionally obscure meaning Score of 3 A typical essay at this level may reveal one or more or the following weaknesses: inadequate organization or development inappropriate or insufficient details to support or illustrate generalizations a noticeably inappropriate choice of words or word forms an accumulation of errors in sentence structure and/or usage Score of 2 A typical essay at this level is flawed by one or more of the following weaknesses: serious disorganization or underdevelopment little or no detail, or irrelevant specifics serious and frequent errors in sentence structure and usage serious problems with focus Score of 1 A typical essay at this level: may be incoherent may be undeveloped may contain severe or persistent writing errors Score of 0 Off topic (i.e., provides no evidence of an attempt to respond to the assigned topic), in a foreign language, merely copies the topic, consists of only keystroke characters, or is illegible, or nonverbal