1. Argumentative Writing
FSA Scoring
Argumentative Writing

2. There are three categories…
1) Purpose, Focus, and Organization
2) Evidence and Elaboration
3) Conventions of Standard English (basically… grammar and such)
(You receive three scores. The highest you can get is 4/4/2. The lowest is 1/1/1. Well, technically 0/0/0.)

3. Purpose, Focus, and organization
Want a perfect score? To receive a 4:
Must have:
Strongly maintained claim with little or no loosely related material
CLEARLY addressed opposing claim
Skillfully uses transitions to clarify relationships between ideas
Logical order of ideas from beginning to end (w/ intro & conclusion)
Appropriate style and tone

4. Purpose, Focus, and organization
Skills not up to snuff? 3: Maintain claim, but sketchy material present Opposing claim is there, but not THERE Transitions are good, not super creative Appropriate style and tone 2:
Focused claim, but a tad unclear
Opposing claim is “insufficiently” addressed
Inconsistent transitions
Idea progression is uneven. This really makes zero sense, y’all. 1:
Absent/confusing claim
Missing opposing claim
Few/no transitional strategies
Lots of extra ideas that make zero sense
No enough writing to judge style or tone

5. Evidence and elaboration
Want a perfect score? To receive a 4:
You must have:
Smoothly integrated, thorough, and relevant evidence, including precise references to sources
Demonstrates understanding of topic/text
CLEAR and effective expression of ideas, using precise language
Academic and rockin’ vocab
Varied sentence structure

6. Evidence and elaboration
Not feeling like a rockstar? 3:
General relevant evidence,
though references are not precise
Adequate use of elaborative techniques
Adequate expression of ideas
Vocab is aight.
Some sentence structure variation 2:
Weak use of sources
Repetitive techniques
Imprecise or simplistic expression of ideas
Vocab is not on point at alllllllll. Simple.
Most sentences are limited to simple structure. 1:
Did you even use evidence? Is it even relevant?
Expression of ideas that is vague, unclear, or confusing

7. Conventions
Want a perfect score? To receive a 2*** (remember, the highest you can receive in this category is a 2):
You must have:
Maybe minor errors but no patterns
Awesome use of punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling

8. conventions Got a 1? That means you:
Had a lot of errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence formation, etc.

9. Did you get a zero?!

10. Guessing scores
Your team will have a certain amount of time at each table.
Write down the predicted score of that essay!
(For every score that your team gets correct, you’ll ALL receive bonus points on this week’s vocab test!)

11. 9th grade prompt example

12. 10th grade prompt example