This document outlines evaluation criteria for student compositions in four categories: grammar, vocabulary, cohesion, and cohesion. Each category is scored on a scale from excellent to not enough. Grammar is evaluated based on correctness and complexity of structures. Vocabulary is assessed for precision and avoidance of colloquial terms. Cohesion and cohesion examine how well sentences are connected and if the three core parts of an essay are identifiable. Scores are assigned as excellent, good, ok, or not enough to provide qualitative feedback to students.

1. EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR COMPOSITIONS
TEACHER: CARMEN ORTIZ CUESTA
CATEGORY 1 – 3 EXCELLENT 0,75 – 2,5 GOOD 1,5 - 0,5 DONE WITH SOME
DIFFICULTY
1 - 0,25/ 0 NOT ENOUGH
GRAMMAR (3 to 1 points) Grammar correctness is
excellent. Word order in the
sentence is perfect.
There are no mistakes in
subject-verb agreement.
There is an accurate use of
pronouns and adjectives and
a great variety of verb
tenses.
Appropriate adverbs are
used for the different verb
tenses.
Irregular plural nouns and
irregular verbs are used
correctly.
Relative clauses are very well
used.
There are complex
grammatical structures such
as passive, conditional or
reported speech.
Grammar correctness is
good, but there are some
mistakes because of the use
of difficult and high level
grammatical structures.
Grammar is correct but there are
some mistakes. The use of verb
tenses is correct, not very
complex though.
There should be more structures
such as passive, conditionals or
reported speech to consider it a
good composition for a second
year of Bachillerato student.
There are serious
mistakes that should be
corrected as soon as
possible because it is
difficult to understand
this piece of writing.
There is not always
agreement between
subject and verb.
Verb tenses are not
appropriate or used
correctly.
There is not a wide
variety of verb tenses.
The sentences are very
simple without good
examples of relative,
passive, conditional or
reported speech.

2. VOCABULARY (3 to 1 points) It uses a register that avoids
vulgar and colloquial
expressions.
Rich and precise vocabulary
related to the text topic.
It includes examples of
adjectives + preposition,
noun + preposition, verb +
preposition, compound
nouns, phrasal verbs,
collocation, idioms.
There is a correct use of
prefixes and suffixes.
It uses a cult registry that
avoids vulgar and colloquial
expressions and includes
specific terms of the topic
that is being worked on.
The vocabulary is suitable.
There is a variety of words
and they are correctly used.
It uses a cult registry that
includes some specific terms of
the topic, although some
colloquial expressions appear.
The vocabulary is correct, but it
is often too general and not very
specific for the topic.
There are some mistakes.
The vocabulary is not rich
or precise. There are too
many general terms like
“people, “go” or “think”.
It is boring and repetitive.
There are serious
mistakes.
COHESION AND COHESION
(4 to 1 points)
 The sentence
connectors allow you
not only to connect the
sentences but also to
facilitate reading and
linking the different
parts of the essay:
presentation, body and
argumentation. The
writing training makes
the content more
attractive and allows the
reader to perceive all its
contents very clearly.
 It makes proper use of
the sentence connectors
to link some parts of the
content or another. The
wording allows you to
read and understand the
content of the text and
identify the parts in
which it is organized.
 Use the sentence
connectors to connect some
sentences and others. The
wording allows you to read
and understand the content
of the text adequately.
 The
registration does not
have an adequate
level: colloquial
expressions abound
or the writing does
not adapt to an
academic level. Only
sentence connectors
appear. The wording
makes it difficult to
read and understand
the text.
 It gives cohesion
to the text and allows
the reader at the same
 It gives cohesion to the
text and facilitates the
understanding of it. In
 It gives cohesion to the
text although it does not
allow its global
 It does not give
cohesion to the text
or simply the essay

3. time the global
understanding of the
essay and of each of its
parts. In the text, the
three fundamental parts
can be clearly identified:
presentation, body of
argumentation and
conclusion. Each of
these parts is linked to
the others but at the
same time can be
understood by itself. The
contents of each part are
well related Each part
has an adequate
extension, being similar
to that of the
presentation and the
conclusion and greater
that of the
argumentation.
the text you can clearly
identify the three
fundamental parts:
presentation, body of
the argument and
conclusion. The contents
of each part are well
related Each part has an
adequate extension.
comprehension. In the text
you can clearly identify the
three fundamental parts:
presentation, body of the
argument and conclusion.
Each part has an adequate
extension.
does not have a
defined structure.
The text is not well
structured: the three
parts are not
identified:
presentation, body
and conclusion.
MARKS QUALIFICATION
3 EXCELLENT (10/9)
2 GOOD (8-7)
1,5 OK (6 -5)
1, 0,5, 0 NOT ENOUGH (4 o - )