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Reflective/Biography Essay Reflective/Biography Essay Final Draft Rubric Code: Y27BX2 By rfinch Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 9-12

Reflective Essay 50 %
	Excellent 10 pts	Good 7 pts	Needs Improvement 3 pts
Cohesiveness 10 pts	Excellent Student chooses one life experience and sticks with it throughout the assignment. Essay is sharp and well-focused.	Good Student chooses one life experience and sticks with it throughout most of the assignment. Essay is somewhat focused but wanders off topic here and there.	Needs Improvement Student could not focus on one life experience. Essay does not have a clear topic, supported by sharp, focused details.
Present Tense 10 pts	Excellent Student uses present tense consistently, or uses it to show a flashback of an important memory.	Good Student attempts to use tense effectively, but fails to do so in an organized manner.	Needs Improvement Student doe not show an understanding of the present tense and or subject-verb tense agreement.
Description/Style 10 pts	Excellent Student makes great use of description, creating apt word pictures to show rather than tell about his/her experience.	Good Student makes a good attempt at description but still falls into the trap to tell at different points.	Needs Improvement Student makes little to no attempt to use description; he/she simply tells a factual story.
Mechanics 50 %
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 3 pts	Needs Improvement 1 pts
Neatness/Format 5 pts	Excellent Student formats the essay using 1" margins all around, 10-12 pt., Times New Roman font. Student also includes a creative title.	Good Student formats the essay using all but one of the following: 1" margins all around, 10-12 pt., Times New Roman font. Student includes a title, but without much care or effort.	Needs Improvement Student does not format the essay as requested, nor does he/she include a title.
Proofreading 5 pts	Excellent Student's essay contains very little if any errors in grammar or punctuation, and they do not interfere with the essay's readability.	Good Student's essay contains several errors in grammar and/or punctuation, and it sometimes interferes with the essay's readability.	Needs Improvement Student's essay contains many errors in grammar and punctuation and obviously did not take time to proofread or have anyone else help proofread the essay.