iRubric: Writing for Freshman Students (holistic) rubric

Paragraph has a title, a well-developed, clearly defined, engaging topic sentence. It had 3-5 interesting, concrete and specific, relevant details, organized logically, chronologically, spatially, sequentially, inductively, or deductively, whole-part. Paragraph has a conclusion.that summarizes content. Writing is smooth, coherent. Ideas are well-connected. Sentences are strong, expressive with varied structure. Transitional words and conjunctions are appropriately.

Paragraph has some of the following weaknesses:
Topic sentence may be incomplete. Details may be insufficient, unrelated to topic, un interesting, abstract or unspecific. May lack logical, chronological, spatial, whole-part order. Conclusion does not adequately restate topic. Writing may not be smooth, coherent. Some ideas may not be well-connected. Some transitional words and conjunctions are missing or misused. Some sentences are not strong, some lack variety.

No title or messy title. No topic sentence or faulty topic sentence. Topic sentence is unintelligible and does not state what is being defined Details are wrong, lacking, un related to the topic sentence, unintelligible, or incomplete. No concluding sentence. Details are not well-connected, lack order. Writing is confusing and hard to follow. Contains fragments and/or run-on sentences. Transitional words and conjunctions are either missing or misused.