BEYOND SCORING: RESPONDING TO EXTENSIVE WRITING

ASSESSING INITIAL STAGES OF THE PROCESS OF COMPOSING 

• Focus you effort primarily on meaning, main idea, and organization. 

• Comment on introductory paragraph 

• Make general comments about the clarify of the main idea and logic or appropriateness of the organization.

• Ignore minor grammatical and lexical error, etc. 

ASSESSING LATER STAGES OF THE PROCESS OF COMPOSING 

• Comment on the specific clarify and strength of all main ideas and supporting ideas and on argument and logic. 

• Call attention to minor grammatical and mechanical errors but direct the writer to self- correction. 

• Comment n any further word choices and expression that may not be awkward but are not as clear or direct as they could be.