Skala Penilaian Writing

            SKALA PENILAIAN WRITING

by H Doughlas Brown.in Language Assessment, Principles and Classroom Practice. Longman. 2003, pp 244-247.

Analytic scale for rating composition tasks (Brown & Bailey, pp. 39-47) 
                          20-18                               17-15                          14-12                        11-6                                   5- 
               Excellent to Good          Good to Adequate      Adequate to Fair        Unacceptable-not college-level work

I. Organization: Appropriate title,       Adequate title,         Mediocre or scant     Shaky or minimally    Absence of 

Introduction,         effective                      introduction, and      introduction or         recognizable               introduction or 
Body, and             introductory                conclusion; body       conclusion;             introduction;             conclusion; no 
Conclusion            paragraph, topic is      of essay is                 problems with the   organization can         apparent 

                              stated, leads to            acceptable, but           order of ideas En      barely be seen;            organization of 

                              body; transitional        some evidence            body; the                  severe problems          body; severe lack 

                              expressions used;        may be lacking,          generalizations         with ordering of          of supporting 

                              arrangement of             some ideas aren't        may not be fully      ideas; lack of                evidence; writer 

                              material shows            fully developed;          supported by the    supporting                has not made any 

                              plan (could be             sequence is logical       evidence given;     evidence                   effort to organize 

                              outlined by reader);     but transitional             prohleins                conclusion weak or     the composition                                     supporting                   expressions may he      organization          illogical;                       (could not be 
                              evidence given for        absent or misused         interfere          inadequate effort at        outlined by reader)

                              generalizations;                                                                                organization 

                              conclusion logical 

                              and complete 

II, Logical      Essay addresses the  Essay addresses the    Development of       Ideas incomplete;    Essay is incomplete 

development  assigned topic; the        issues but misses         ideas not complete   essay does not        inadequate .ind
of ideas:              ideas are concrete       some points; ideas     or essay is                   reflect careful          does not reflect
Content              and thoroughly            could be more fully     somewhat off the    thinking or was           college-level-work

                     developed; no                developed; some        topic; paragraphs   hurriedly written;          no apparent effort
                      extraneous                      extraneous material     aren't divided         inadequate effort in         to consider the
                      material; essay                is present                   exactly right          area of content                 topic carefully

Ill. Grammar   Native-like fluency     Advanced    Ideas are getting   Numerous serious     Severe grammar 
                          in English                          proficiency in          through to the           grammar problems      problems interfere
                          grammar; correct               English grammar;   reader, but                 interfere with            greatly with the
                          use of relative                   some grammar         grammar problems    communication of       message; reader
                          clauses,                              problems don't        are apparent and       the writer's ideas;        can't understand
                          prepositions,                     influence                  have a negative         grammar review of      what the writer was 
                          modals, articles,                communication,         effect on                   some areas clearly       trying to say;
                          verb forms, and                although the reader  communication;        needed; difficult to     unintelligible
                          tense sequencing;            is aware of them;      run-on sentences or   read sentences        sentence structure
                          no fragments or                 no fragments or            fragments present
                          run-on sentences               run-on sentences

IV. Punctuation, Correct use of      Some problems       Uses general    Serious problems    Complete disregard 
spelling, and English writing           with writing       writing conventions    with format of      for English writing 
mechanics     conventions: left       conventions or     but has errors;       paper; parts of      conventions; paper 
                         and right margins,      punctuation;            spelling problems       essay not legible;  illegible; obvious 

                   all needed capitals,    occasional spelling     distract reader;         errors in sentence   capitals missing, no
                   paragraphs                  errors; left margin        punctuation errors     punctuation and     margins, severe
                   indented,                     correct; paper is           interfere with ideas    final punctuation;   spelling problems 
                   punctuation and         neat and legible           unacceptable to
                   spelling; very near                                            educated readers

V. Style and    Precise vocabulary  Attempts variety;        Some vocabulary   Poor expression of    inappropriate use 
quality of     usage; use of         good vocabulary;          misused; lacks      ideas; problems in      of vocabulary; no 
expression    parallel structures;     not wordy; register      awareness of     vocabulary; lacks   concept of register

                      concise; register         OK; style fairly           register; may be     variety of structure           or sentence variety
                       good                                  concise                  too wordy