Certificate of Mastery Example Writing Questions

Certificate of Mastery Example Writing Questions - Critical Review Essay

Critical Review Essay

Day One: Writing Task B

Directions: For this writing task, you will have the opportunity to follow all of the steps of the writing process: prewriting, writing a first draft, revising, editing, and writing a final draft. It is okay to cross out words and sentences and try different ways to get your ideas across. You may use a dictionary and thesaurus. Please note: The only piece of writing that will be scored for this writing task is your final draft. Your score will be based on the scoring criteria listed on the previous page (for this website example, see the scoring criteria below), which are different from the scoring criteria presented for Writing Task A.

Literary Review

In literary reviews, critics examine various positive and negative aspects of a literary work to determine the effectiveness and the quality of the work.

YOUR TASK

Write a critical review for a teacher evaluating a short story, a novel, OR a play you have read.

Since this is an assessment of your writing ability, be sure to refer to the scoring criteria provided to develop an appropriate critical review essay.

Day One: Scoring Criteria for Writing Task B

Scoring Criteria

An effective piece of writing for this task demonstrates control over the following elements:

Content and organization: In other word, the writing

maintains a clear focus on the topic and has ample supporting details;
provides logical organization and a whole, complete piece of writing;
uses transitions to connect ideas effectively

Style: In other words, the writing

uses engaging and appropriate language for the intended audience and purpose;
uses fluent sentences, or phrases when appropriate, of varied length and structure;
is expressive and interesting.

Standard conventions: In other words, the writing

contains complete sentences and shows paragraphs clearly;
uses words, capitalization, and punctuation correctly;
contains grammatically correct sentences;
contains words spelled correctly.

You may use the scratch paper provided to do your prewriting and/or write your first draft.

Final Draft

Use the lines provided to write your final draft.

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The student will have 4 and a half page in the test book to complete the final draft.

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