Manuscript reasonably neat, orderly. Subject unsuitable or not properly limited. Essay does not convey its main or subordinate ideas very effectively. Sentence structure suffers from obscurities or from illogical, incorrect. immature, or unidiomatic constructions. Paper marred by errors of grammar, punctuation, or spelling.
Manuscript lacks neatness, order, and care in proofreading.
Organization incompetent, faulty or illogical. Essay fails to get across its main ideas or does so ineffectively. Sentences on the whole not clearly, correctly, and logically constructed. Frequent errors in grammar, spelling, or punctuation, perhaps including even solecisms or one or more sentence fragments or comma splices.