WSA Scoring Guide - Fundamentally Deficient

Score of 1

A paper in this category demonstrates incompetence. Such a paper

• provides little evidence of the ability to address the writing task effectively. In addition, such a paper is flawed by one or more of the following weaknesses:
• has very poor organization
• has very thin development
• (Persuasion) is inappropriate in style and tone or for (Position) a general audience
• contains a pervasive pattern of errors in written English (grammar, syntax, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling) so severe that meaning is obscured