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Persuasive Letter Persuasive Letter/Letter to the Artist Writing Rubric Rubric Code: LX5W554 By jrickless Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 9-12

Persuasive Letter Rubric
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Adequate 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Date and Greeting	Excellent * Date included * Proper greeting/salutation is used * Name is capitalized * Includes comma after the name	Good Missing one component from the following: * Date included * Proper greeting/salutation * Name is capitalized * Comma after the name	Adequate Missing two components from the following: * Date included * Proper greeting/salutation * Name is capitalized * Comma after the name	Poor * Date omitted * No greeting/salutation or improper greeting/salutation * Name is not capitalized * Comma after the name is omitted
Opening Sentence	Excellent Great opening sentence that captures my reader's attention and makes him/her want to keep reading to find out what I have to say.	Good Good opening sentence that makes my reader want to keep reading to find out what I say.	Adequate Basic opening sentence that doesn't really make my reader want to keep reading to find out what I have to say.	Poor No opening sentence
Body	Excellent Provides 3-4 complex ideas, with vivid description, to persuade the reader. Includes strong facts, statistics, expert opinions, examples from several varied sources to prove their point.	Good Provides 3 clear ideas, with appropriate description, to persuade the reader. Includes adequate facts, statistics, expert opinions, examples from several sources to prove their point.	Adequate Provides 2-3 simple ideas, with some description, to persuade the reader. Includes weak facts, statistics, expert opinions, examples from few sources to prove their point.	Poor Provides only 1 simple idea, with limited description, to persuade the reader. Includes poor facts, statistics, opinions, examples from a source to prove their point.
Concluding Sentence	Excellent Concluding sentence restates why you are writing the letter in a powerful, creative, and interesting way	Good Concluding sentence restates why you are writing the letter	Adequate Concluding sentence does not relate to why you are writing the letter	Poor No concluding sentence
Closing	Excellent * Proper closing and in the proper place * Comma after closing * Signature included and in the proper place	Good Missing one component of the following: * Proper closing * Closing in the proper place * Comma after closing * Signature * Signature in the proper place	Adequate Missing two-three components of the following: * Proper closing * Closing in the proper place * Comma after closing * Signature * Signature in the proper place	Poor * Omits proper closing or not in proper place * Omits comma after closing * Omits signature or not in right place
Conventions	Excellent Paper contains hardly any capitalization, punctuation, grammar and/or spelling errors.	Good Paper contains a few capitalization, punctuation, grammar and/or spelling errors.	Adequate Paper contains some capitalization, punctuation, grammar and/or spelling errors.	Poor Paper contains many capitalization, punctuation, grammar and/or spelling errors.
Set-up	Excellent Letter is 2-3 pages long, typed and properly set up with a heading, greeting, closing, and signature.	Good Letter is just short of 2 pages long, typed and properly set up with a heading, greeting, closing, and signature.	Adequate Letter is just short of 2 pages long, hand written and properly set up with a heading, greeting, closing, and signature.	Poor Set-up criteria does not meet 2 or more of the requirements to be a 2.

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