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SIX-TRAITS
IDEAS, ORGANIZATION, FLUENCY, WORD CHOICE, VOICE, CONVENTIONS
IDEAS
THE MAIN POINT OR STORY LINE.
ORGANIZATION
THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE PIECE.
SENTENCE FLUENCY
THE RHYTHM AND THE FLOW OF THE LANGUAGE, HOW IT PLAYS IN THE EAR.
WORD CHOICE
EVIDENCE OF PRECISION IN THE USE OF WORDS.
VOICE
EVIDENCE OF THE WRITER BEHIND THE MESSAGE
CONVENTIONS
THE MECHANICAL CORRECTNESS OF THE PIECE.
BY: CALLIE GASKILL
IDEAS
- Detail
- What's important or interesting
- Focus
ORGANIZATION
- Beginning, Middle, End
- Ability to organize
- Good sense of sequence
SENTENCE FLUENCY
- Sentence sense
- An ear for language patterns
- A variety of sentence lengths
WORD CHOICE
- Awareness of language
- Understanding that there are different ways to say things
- Stretching to use new words
VOICE
- Individuality
- Personality
- Enthusiasm for writing
CONVENTIONS
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Capitalization
- Grammar
- Spacing
