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Word Choice	Excellent word choice gives this essay power. Your words are used in an interesting, natural, and expert way. Your words make your writing especially clear.	Your word choice makes your writing interesting but easy to understand. Your words are natural and help to make the essay clear and believable. Your words are used in a generally interesting way.	Are your words precise? Have you avoided using clichés, redundancies, and overused phrases? Have you used literary devices to enhance your writing? Have you used strong, interesting, and unusual words rather than common or overused ones?	Are the words in your essay interesting and uncommon? Do you use a variety of words and phrases or do you repeat the same ones? Have you chosen the correct words to express your ideas and to make the meaning of each sentence clear? Have you chosen words that are specific?	Are the words you have used specific? Do you use different words instead of the same ones over and over? Have you chosen words to make your essay interesting? Have you used the correct words to make your essay clear?
Sentence Fluency	The amount of sentence variety present in this essay makes the text interesting. Your writing is concise and effective in conveying your meaning. Your writing is very natural and fluent.	Check to be sure your grammar is completely correct. Check to make sure you have some short sentences and some long ones. Check to make sure your writing is smooth and even. Check to see if you can improve any of your sentences.	Are your sentences, both simple and complex, without errors? Do the sentences flow smoothly one after the other? Have you made sure that you have no awkward sentences to slow a • reader down? Have you made sure that you have • used a variety of sentence types and lengths?	Are all sentences complete? Do your sentences begin in different ways? Have you used different kinds of sentences? Are your sentences easy to understand? Have you made sure that sentence fragments or awkward sentences do not disrupt the flow of your essay?	Are the sentences you have written complete? Are your sentences smooth instead of choppy or hard to understand? Do you have some long and some short sentences?
Conventions	Mistakes in spelling, grammar, and punctuation are few, if any, and they do not make it difficult for the reader to understand your essay. This essay is long enough and is written at a high level, showing that you use grammar, punctuation, and capitalization to make your writing more exciting. You have shown that you understand spelling, punctuation, and capitalization rules.	Check to make sure there are no errors in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Check to make sure you have used paragraphs correctly. Check to make sure your subjects and verbs agree.	Have you made sure your spelling is correct? Have you used paragraphs correctly? Have you written enough to show that you have control of spelling, punctuation, and/or capitalization?	Can the reader understand your words and sentences? Do your subjects and verbs agree? Have you made sure that your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are correct?	Have you made sure your spelling is correct? Have you used commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks throughout your essay? Have you used correct grammar throughout your essay?