FEZILE DABI EDUCATION DISTRICT

SYMBOLS TO BE USED IN MARKING CREATIVE WRITING TEXTS IN GRADES 8 AND 9

✓ - Approval of idea/concept/word/sentence Log - logic/points do not make sense

? - Puzzlement/confusion Prep - incorrect preposition use
L - Language error Pron - incorrect pronoun
t - Tense error Rep - repetition/do not repeat the same idea over and over
ʌ - Omission/word or phrase left out Exp - incorrect use of expression (snake in the grass/two birds
one stone etc)
O - Word is circled: required special attention
Syn - Syntax error/sentence constructed incorrectly
= - No paragraphs/incorrect paragraphing
Voc - Vocabulary error/used the wrong word/could have used
/ - Word must be divided/hyphenated a better one
C - Capitalisation/word is incorrectly capitalised/not Art - Incorrect Article
capitalised correctly
Inc - Incomplete sentence. Grammatically incorrect
P - Punctuation error
Wo - Word order incorrect, sentence should be rephrased
Co - Concord error/subject-verb agreement incorrect
Gen - Generalisation
Sp - Spelling error
Intro - Introduction fails to grasp attention
Ls - Long sentence distracts from meaning
Conc - Conclusion fails to draw together points written above
Amb - Ambiguity/ double meaning/ meaning unclear
Adv - Adverb Cl - Cell phone language

Adj - Adjectives Irr - Irrelevant

Sl - Slang
WRITING ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK GRID

NB: CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK SHOULD BE COMMUNICATED AFTER MARKING TO INFORM AND IMPROVE
TEACHING AND LEARNING. MOREOVER, YOU AS AN EDUATOR SHOULD USE ANALYSE LEARNER
PERFORMANCE AND USE IT TO REFLECT ON YOUR TEACHING.

CRITERIA COMMENT
CONTENT AND PLANNING Excellent planning. You had good ideas. Some good ideas. Your essay mostly You did not
Excellent essay. You Your introduction, Planning does not make sense. respond to the
hit the mark! You have body and conclusion attempted. You Some evidence of topic. You did not
great potential as a were all connected certainly did the planning. Try to put do planning. Your
writer. well. There is some job, but you could more effort into essay is
room for have done so planning your essay confusing.
improvement, much better with a and thinking about Next time, think
though. little more effort. what you are writing about what you
Perhaps, have a down. are writing and
friend read your read it back to
work first next time. yourself before
handing it in.
LANGUAGE, STYLE, AND Great stuff – no You have good You did an You tried editing your Your language
EDITING language complaints language use and adequate job, but work but there are still use is not where it
here. know how to write you are still many mistakes. You should be. You
for an audience. You struggling to be also need to work on should work on
edited your essay exceptional. Have your writing skills when improving all
well, but there are a friend help next it comes to your aspects including
still a few mistakes. time. Or ask your language use. spelling and
teacher for help. grammar.
Perhaps you
should revise
some language
work we did in
class. You did not
edit your essay for
spelling mistakes.
STRUCTURE Your essay was so Your essay Your structure was Some paragraphs, but There is no
easy to read because developed well from adequate. Improve they don’t make sense. structure. You did
of the structure. Introduction to by planning better You tried making a use paragraphs or
Excellent intro, Conclusion. Work on and seeing where structure, but still need find the beginning,
conclusion and having a better flow your essay will go to learn how to create a middle and end.
middle. next time. before you write it. flow to your essay.

THE WRITING PROCESS

 PLANNING
Quickly put your thoughts in order. Use a mindmap, brainstorm, spider diagram, keywords,
Planning should never take more than 5 - 10 minutes etc

FIRST DRAFT
The first working of your writing.
Use this opportunity to make mistakes.
Put your planning to work

EDIT
Cross out, insert, edit your language, identify as many
This is where you check your language, structure, and mistakes as you can. Fix as many mistakes as you can.
content. Did you meet the requirements of the essay? Ask a friend/family member/teacher/ for help. Check for
possible plagiarism

FINAL
The neat, finished, polished product.
Check one final time for any possible slip-ups.
Must be free of spelling/grammatical errors