iRubric: Character Sketch rubric

Meets all critera.

One of the criteria is missing or a thesis statment is present but is in the form of a list.

Two of the critera are missing.

Three or more of the criteria are missing.

Well chosen significant details bring your character to life. The reader believes in your character and understands his or her motivations. You have included powerful elements of direct and indirect methods of characterization.

You included some significant details in your writing; this gives the reader some sense of your character.

You included few significant details in your writing; reader has a vague sense of your character.

You included very few if any significant details in your writing; the reader has little understanding of your character.

The writer demonstrates a consistent ability to control a wide range of elements of effective writing, but it is not necessarily flawless.

The writer maintains reasonable control of a wide range of standard conventions in a piece that may contain lapses in punctuation, diction, or syntax, but generally the writing is clear.

The writer generally conveys his or her ideas, but may be less consistent than a '3' in controlling punctuation, diction, and syntax.

The writer demonstrates consistent lack of control over punctuation, diction, and syntax.

The piece is too brief to demonstrate control.