Central idea may require more support, examples, or other means of development than the writer provides. Shows basic understanding of organization, but transitions sometimes abrupt or mechanical.
Sentences are reasonably clear with some variation in structure.
Contains relatively few errors in language and mechanics. Shows some originality or variation in syntax. Repetition coupled with simplicity is what I discovered in Eberharts' The Cancer Cells. Robert Frosts' poem The Design, although equally impressive, was written with a far simpler rhyme scheme. Robert Frost filled his poem with many analogies and a few questions.