State of New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey GEPA Language Arts Literacy Assessment Tutorial

Cluster 2:  Writing to Persuade - Prompt "B"

Writing Sample #4 - Scoring "5"

The following writing sample for the Sample Persuasive Writing Prompt B a "5" based on the New Jersey Registered Holistic Scoring Rubric.

Scorers made the following comments about the sample below:

The response is organized and focused and progresses from beginning to end. The writer provides examples that are developed with specific details. The sophisticated language (lipids, acquire, obese, consume) and compositional risk (I myself have noticed that the people eating junk foods are not the obese students, rather, it is the ones who are concerned with gaining weight.) in this repsonse demonstrates a strong command of the language.