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Sample A.10—Six-Trait Model, Writing

Ideas and Content
(Development)


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This paper is clear and focused. It holds the reader's attention. Relevant anecdotes and details enrich the central theme or storyline.

* Ideas are fresh and original.
* The writer seems to be writing from knowledge or experience and shows insight: an understanding of life and a knack for picking out what is significant.
* Relevant, telling, quality details give the reader important information that goes beyond the obvious or predictable.
* The writer develops the topic in an enlightening, purposeful way that makes a point or tells a story. (more...)

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