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Anessayatthislevellargelyaccomplishesallofthefollowing:

●effectivelyaddressthetopicandtask

●iswellorganizedandwelldeveloped,usingclearlyappropriateexplanations,exemplifications,

and/ordetails

●displaysunity,progression,andcoherence

●displaysconsistentfacilityintheuoflanguage,demonstratingsyntacticvariety,appropriate

wordchoice,andidiomaticity,thoughitmayhaveminorlexicalorgrammaticalerrors

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Anessayatthislevellargelyaccomplishesallofthefollowing:

●addressthetopicandtaskwell,thoughsomepointsmaynotbefullyelaborated

●isgenerallywellorganizedandwelldeveloped,usingappropriateandsufficientexplanations,

exemplifications,and/ordetails

●displaysunity,progression,andcoherence,thoughitmaycontainoccasionalredundancy,

digression,orunclearconnections

●displaysfacilityintheuoflanguage,demonstratingsyntacticvarietyandrangeofvocabu-

lary,thoughitwillprobablyhaveoccasionalnoticeableminorerrorsinstructure,wordform,or

uofidiomaticlanguagethatdonotinterferewithmeaning

Anessayatthislevelismarkedbyoneormoreofthefollowing:

●addressthetopicandtaskusingsomewhatdevelopedexplanations,exemplifications,

and/ordetails

●displaysunity,progression,andcoherence,thoughconnectionofideasmaybeoccasionally

obscured

●maydemonstrateinconsistentfacilityinntenceformationandwordchoicethatmayresultin

lackofclarityandoccasionallyobscuremeaning

●maydisplayaccuratebutlimitedrangeofsyntacticstructuresandvocabulary

Anessayatthislevelmayrevealoneormoreofthefollowingweakness:

●limiteddevelopmentinrespontothetopicandtask

●inadequateorganizationorconnectionofideas

●inappropriateorinsufficientexemplifications,explanations,ordetailstosupportorillustrate

generalizationsinrespontothetask

●anoticeablyinappropriatechoiceofwordsorwordforms

●anaccumulationoferrorsinntencestructureand/orusage

Anessayatthislevelisriouslyflawedbyoneormoreofthefollowingweakness:

●riousdisorganizationorunderdevelopment

●littleornodetail,orirrelevantspecifics,orquestionableresponsivenesstothetask

●riousandfrequenterrorsinntencestructureorusage

Anessayatthislevelmerelycopieswordsfromthetopic,rejectsthetopic,orisotherwinot

connectedtothetopic,iswritteninaforeignlanguage,consistsofkeystrokecharacters,oris

blank.

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