Demonstrate awareness of audience, purpose, and context through making informed decisions about forms of appeal, style, genre, and modality.
Exhibit knowledge of writing conventions related to expectations such as clarity, cohesion, organization, paragraph structure, grammar, and mechanics.
Maintain a controlling purpose for research and writing that emerges from a clearly-defined research question.
Criteria
Provide a clear explanation of the issue and its importance to the writer.
Clearly communicate the life experience or events that “connect” the writer the issue he or she has chosen to research.
Include rich details about people, places, and events that contributed to or were involved in the writer’s connection to the issue at hand.
Employ narrative strategies to engage the reader: conventions of storytelling such as descriptive writing, characterization, non-fiction plot, dialogue, flashbacks, etc.
Demonstrate a recursive writing process that that includes invention, drafting, and revision.
Exhibit effective editing and proofreading skills.
