Communication

Beginning

Developing

Good Skills

Excellent Skills

Well organised  report text with staged arguments and recommendations

Arguments not staged – no logical development.

Recommendations do not follow or are very unclear.

Arguments partially staged, but sequencing  is still confusing.  Recommendations are still unclear.

Arguments  staged well, and most developed logically. Recommendations are fairly clear.

Arguments well staged and developed  logically. Recommendations are very clear.

Gives information with supporting evidence

Rarely supports argument with sufficient evidence.

Sometimes supports argument with sufficient evidence

Usually supports argument with sufficient evidence

Always supports argument with sufficient evidence.

Appropriate vocabulary

Writer unable to find appropriate words to convey clear meanings

Writer still grasping at use of appropriate vocabulary

Writer has enough word attack to convey general meaning.

Writer uses appropriate vocabulary with ease.

Correct sentence construction

Coherence of argument  suffers from many grammatical errors.

Still require a lot of work on the part of the reader to understand

Errors do not interfere with the meaning – reading stress is less.

Few grammatical errors and no stress on the part of the reader.

Correct spelling

Many spelling mistakes

Some spelling mistakes

Only a few spelling mistakes

No spelling mistakes.