Short Story Scoring Tool
	(adapted from MSDE writing for personal expression)

Element		Points	Earned Assessment
			Self	Teacher
Development Organization   Attention to Audience Language	Writer consistently develops the ideas into a complete, well-developed whole. Plot line is developed with clear beginning, definite climax, and appropriate resolution. Characters are appropriately developed. Writer fully anticipates and answers the audience's needs (audience may include self). Writer consistently uses language choices to enhance the text and in a manner appropriate to the literary form.	3
Development Organization   Attention to Audience Language	Writer partially develops the ideas, but the response is not a complete, well-developed whole. Writer purposefully orders ideas. Plot is apparent but lacks cohesiveness. Characters are somewhat developed. Writer somewhat anticipates and answers the audience's needs (audience may include self). Writer frequently uses language choices to enhance the text and in a manner appropriate to the literary form.	2
Development Organization   Attention to Audience Language	Writer tries to develop the ideas, but the response is not a well-developed whole and is not complete. Writer orders ideas, but there are some interruptions in the flow of the piece. Plot lacks one or more important elements and characters are not well developed. Writer attempts to anticipate and answer the audience's needs (audience may include self). Writer sometimes uses language choices to enhance the text and in a manner appropriate to the literary form.	1
Development Organization Attention to Audience Language	Writer has not developed the ideas into a complete whole. Writer shows little purposefully ordering of ideas. Plot is not discernible and characters are undeveloped. Writer has not anticipated and answered the audience's needs (audience may include self). Writer seldom, if ever, uses language choices to enhance the text and in a manner appropriate to the literary form.	0
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