• Outstanding/Striking response beyond normal expectations.
• Intelligent, thought-provoking and mature ideas
• Exceptionally well organised and coherent (connected) including introduction, body and conclusion/ending.

• Very well-crafted response.
• Fully relevant and interesting.
• Ideas with evidence of maturity
• Very well organised and coherent (connected) including introduction, body and conclusion/ending.

• Satisfactory response
• Ideas are reasonably coherent and convincing.
• Reasonably organised and coherent including introduction, body and conclusion/ending

• Inconsistently coherent response
• Unclear ideas and unoriginal
• Little evidence of organisation and coherence.

• Totally irrelevant response
• Confused and unfocused ideas
• Vague and repetitive
• Unorganised and incoherent

• Excellent response but lacks the exceptionally striking qualities of the outstanding essay
• Mature and intelligent ideas
• Skilfully organised and coherent (connected) including introduction, body and conclusion/ending.

• Well-crafted response.
• Relevant and interesting ideas.
• Well organised and coherent (connected) including introduction, body and conclusion.

• Satisfactory response but some lapses in clarity.
• Ideas are fairly coherent and convincing.
• Some degree of organisation and coherence including introduction, body and conclusion.

• Largely irrelevant response.
• Ideas tend to be disconnected and confusing.
• Hardly any evidence of organisation and coherence.

• No attempt to respond to the topic
• Completely irrelevant and
  inappropriate
• Unfocused and muddled

• Tone, register, style, vocabulary highly appropriate to purpose, audience and context
• Language confident, exceptionally impressive – compelling and rhetorically effective in tone.
• Virtually error-free in grammar and spelling.
• Highly skilfully crafted.

• Tone, register, style and vocabulary very appropriate to purpose, audience and context.
• Language is effective and a consistently appropriate tone is used.
• Largely error-free in grammar and spelling.
• Very well crafted.

• Tone, register, style and vocabulary appropriate to purpose, audience and context.
• Appropriate use of language to convey meaning.
• Tone is appropriate.
• Rhetorical devices used to enhance content.

• Tone, register, style and vocabulary not appropriate to purpose, audience and context.
• Very basic use of language.
• Tone and diction are inappropriate.
• Very limited vocabulary.

• Language incomprehensible
• Tone, register, style and
  vocabulary less appropriate
  to purpose, audience and
  context
• Vocabulary limitations so
  extreme as to make
  comprehension impossible

• Language excellent and rhetorically effective in tone.
• Virtually error-free in grammar and spelling.
• Skilfully crafted.

• Language engaging and generally effective
• Appropriate and effective tone.
• Few errors in grammar and spelling.
• Well-crafted

• Adequate use of language with some inconsistencies.
• Tone generally appropriate and limited use of rhetorical devices.

• Inadequate use of language.
• Little or no variety in sentence.
• Exceptionally limited vocabulary.

• Excellent development of topic
• Exceptional detail
• Sentences, paragraphs exceptionally well-constructed

• Logical development of details
• Coherent
• Sentences, paragraphs logical, varied

• Relevant details developed
• Sentences, paragraphs well-constructed
  Essay still makes sense

• Some valid points
• Sentences and paragraphs faulty
• Essay still makes sense despite flaws.

• Necessary points lacking
• Sentences and paragraphs faulty

• Outstanding response beyond normal expectations
• Intelligent and mature ideas
• Extensive knowledge of features of the type of text
• Writing maintains focus
• Coherence in content and ideas.
• Highly elaborated and all details support the topic
• Appropriate and accurate format

•  Very good response demonstrating good knowledge of features of the type of text.
• Maintains focus – no digressions.
• Coherent in content and ideas, very well elaborated and details support topic.
• Appropriate format with minor inaccuracies.

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• Adequate response demonstrating knowledge of features of the type of text.
• Not completely focused – some digressions.
• Reasonably coherent in content and ideas
• Some details support the topic
• Generally appropriate format but with some inaccuracies

• Basic response demonstrating some knowledge of features of the type of text.
• Some focus but writing digresses.
• Not always coherent in content and ideas.
  Few details support the topic.
• Has vaguely applied necessary rules of format
• Some critical oversights.

•   Response reveals no knowledge of features of the type of text
• Meaning is obscure with major digressions.
• Not coherent in content and ideas. Very few details support the topic.
• Has not applied necessary rules of format.

• Tone, register, style, vocabulary highly appropriate to purpose, audience and context
• Grammatically accurate and well-constructed
• Virtually error-free.

• Tone, register, style and vocabulary very appropriate to purpose, audience and context
• Generally grammatically accurate and well-constructed
• Very good vocabulary
• Mostly free of errors 

• Tone, register, style and vocabulary appropriate to purpose, audience and context.
• Some grammatical errors
• Adequate vocabulary
• Errors do not impede meaning

• Tone, register, style and vocabulary less appropriate to purpose, audience and context
• Inaccurate grammar with numerous errors
• Limited vocabulary
• Meaning is obscured.

• Tone, register, style and vocabulary do not correspond to purpose, audience and context.
• Error-ridden and confused
• Vocabulary not suitable for purpose
• Meaning seriously obscured