New Jersey GEPA Language Arts Literacy Assessment Tutorial
Cluster 2: Writing to Persuade - Prompt "B"
Writing Sample #3 - Scoring "5"
The following writing sample for the Sample Persuasive Writing Prompt B scored a "5" based on the New Jersey Registered Holistic Scoring Rubric.
Scorers made the following comments about the sample below:
This response is organized and has a logical progression of ideas from beginning to end. The writer takes compositional risks by asking rhetorical questions (Did you have junk food in your lunches? Did you want it there? Did you eat it?) and by using facts involving the human body (Did you know that the human body stores fat for a reserve resource of energy? Some of the substances cintained in junk food are needed for energy.) to reiterate the need for junk food. More sophisticated syntax and development of ideas would be needed to move this response to the next level.
