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Creative Writing Short Story Creative Writing Short Story Students will write a short story about the fictional character they created at the beginning of the unit Rubric Code: R27454 By kwarfield Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: (none)

Creative - short story
	Excellent 50 pts	Good 40 pts	Fair 30 pts	Poor 20 pts
Characterization	Excellent The character is clearly flawed in some way. The character is realistic and developed.	Good The character is clearly flawed in some way. The character is somewhat realistic, but inconsistent. Traits are somewhat developed.	Fair The character is barely developed.	Poor There is no character development.
Plot	Excellent The story is extremely developed and thorough without being verbose. The conflict is explored, and characters are developed through both direct and indirect characterization.	Good The story is very developed and thorough without being verbose. The conflict is explored, and the characters are somewhat developed.	Fair The story is somewhat developed or rambling and verbose. The conflict is explored, and there is some development of the characters.	Poor The story is undeveloped or extremely verbose.
Setting	Excellent Use of setting is clear. Reader able to distinguish when a change of setting is present or has occurred.	Good Use of setting is somewhat clear, at times is difficult for reader to clearly identify setting.	Fair Use of setting is unclear, it is difficult for the reader to identify setting in the story.	Poor No use of setting is present in the short story. It is clearly undetermined.
Nuts and Bolts	Excellent Short story is typed, or neatly written in ink. Name, date, and class are present. Unique title is present.	Good Short story is typed, or neatly written in ink. Name, date, and class may be missing. Title is present, but may not be unique.	Fair Short story neatly written. No title.	Poor Sloppy hand-written copy that is not in ink without a title.
Point of View	Excellent Point of view is clear, use of first person, third person limited and omniscient easily detected by the reader. Changes point of view for reader interest (if possible).	Good Point of view somewhat clear, shift between first and third not always easy to identify for reader. Little use of change, but is identifiable.	Fair Point of view is unclear at times, shifts in dialogue (first or third) hard for reader to detect. Reader struggles to identify point of view.	Poor Point of view is not clear. Reader is unable to identify point of view at all in piece.