Use this chart to assess your own skills demonstrated in your ESSAY WRITING activities
overall. You must complete, and submit, this assessment tool, with your final, polished
essay!
What I can try to improve:
Provide evidence from specific activity:
Writing Criteria
Curriculum Expectations
What I did well:
Provide evidence from specific activity:
Developing and Organizing
Content (C1):
– read the essay prompt(s) carefully
and ensure that you understand the
purpose of the assignment
– ask the teacher, classmates if you
have any questions
– create a list of important/relevant
quotations from text(s) studied based
on essay prompt
– group the quotations, look for
patterns, try to identify the richest
quotations from the list
– analyse the quotations in point
form–why are these quotations
instructive, important?
Use Knowledge of Form and Style
(C2):
– try to decide on a working thesis in
consultation with teacher
– complete an essay outline in full
and get feedback before you write a
first draft
– use correct essay structure:
Intro: hook, topic, plan, thesis
Body: opening sentence, point/
proof/explain, closing sentence
Conclusion: restated thesis, plan,
clincher
– use transition words to provide
coherence between ideas, points
– use present tense when referring to
text
– use formal diction and avoid
contractions, slang
– use MLA style for citations, Work
Cited page, and format your page
correctly
– integrate quotations correctly
– analyze quotations effectively
What I can try to improve:
Provide evidence from specific activity:
Writing Criteria
Curriculum Expectations
What I did well:
Provide evidence from specific activity:
Applying Knowledge of
Conventions (C3):
– print out work and go over it with a
teacher, peer, family member
– make note of any errors and correct
them, esp. spelling and grammar
errors that make your ideas less
clear
– use punctuation correctly,
especially: commas, dashes,
semicolons, colons
– polish up final drafts, make note of
the types of improvements that were
made
Reflecting on Skills and Strategies
(C4):
– keep a “writing error” log, where
you list any common errors
committed and how to fix them
– keep running list of new vocabulary
words
– complete both columns on this
sheet. What are your strengths and
weaknesses as a writer? (C1, C2,
C3)?
– which one area should you focus
on improving for your next essay?
– which one area do you think was
the most well-executed on this
essay?
My overall level for this essay: Circle your level:
1 1+ 2 2+ 3
3+ 4 4+
Student Name:
I deserve the level circled
above because:
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