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Creative Writing Rubric

Grade Attainment Analytical Skills Creative and conceptual skills Professional and production
% qualities
90-100 Outstanding and Critiques offered will be Outstanding conception and Showing outstanding skills of
A+ exceptional work. An of an excellent standard. originality of thought and planning, preparation and
exemplary range and They will have clarity creativity. Evidence of organization. Demonstrating
depth of attainment of and technical rigour and publishable or near publishable exceptional levels of
intended learning offer new insight into strengths and the ability to presentational skill and
outcomes. Work the work critiqued and write with accuracy, accuracy. Wide, adventurous
demonstrates a high the literary context the penetrations and flair. critical reading will be in
degree of originality, work emerges from. Demonstrates complete evidence.
control and rigour. The mastery of the characteristics
standard is convincing and demands of the chosen
and compelling and genre.
offers new insights and
stimulation.
80-89 Exemplary range and Critiques will Deployment of considered Showing excellence in skills of
A depth of attainment of demonstrate style and judgment relating to key issues, planning, preparation and
intended learning control equivalent to concepts and procedures. organization. Demonstrating
outcomes. Work is creative work. They will Creative work should very high levels of
excellent and show some clarity and demonstrate an awareness of presentational skill and
stimulating. It shows technical rigour. the potentials and constraints of accuracy.
originality and Contextual knowledge the forms in which they operate.
possesses a range of and theoretical
excellent qualities. understanding will be
evident and applied.
75-79 Excellent range of Ability to integrate or The creative work will be Showing excellence in skills of
A- attainment of the link textual, contextual distinctive. A poem could planning, preparation and
intended learning and theoretical demonstrate formal control, organization. Demonstrating
outcomes. The work is knowledge and curious in its engagement with very high levels of
competent and coherent understanding. Aware of ‘traditional’ shapes; prose could presentational skill and
throughout. It general thematic be deft in its deployment of accuracy.
occasionally produces concerns and particular voice, character and narrative,
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some excellence, but is textual detail. Able to accomplished in its use of pace
not consistent. demonstrate a degree of and structure, and aware of the
stylistic and formal possibilities of genre; scripted
control to creative work. work should display an
economy of means and
sensitivity to its intended
production medium.
70-74 Very high attainment of Critiques are competent A strong depth of Showing very good skills of
B+ most of the intended but may offer more understanding. Ability to handle planning, preparation and
learning outcomes. descriptive elements and synthesise a range of ideas organization. Demonstrating
Work at this level will be than theoretical. There and some signs of independent good presentation skill and
competent and coherent is a struggle to or original thinking. Language accuracy. Evidence of very
throughout, occasionally substantiate general will often be original and sound researching and reading
but not consistently argument inventive and will demonstrate skills, with a depth and range
rising to excellence. good selection and editing skills’ of reference. Accurat
themes, settings and subject referencing and scholarly
matter will largely be apparatus in evidence.
appropriately chosen and
deployed with precision;
structural control and narrative
momentum maintained
throughout; few lapses in
authorial control, with effective
use of dialogue, point of view
and narrative voice. Some signs
of creative excellence but not
sustained as in first-class work.
65-69 Very Good attainment of A close familiarity with a A good depth of understanding. Showing good skills of
B virtually all intended wide range of Ability to handle and synthesise planning, preparation and
learning outcomes. supporting evidence. a range of ideas. Language will organization. Demonstrating
Work will sometimes be Critiques will often be original and inventive, good presentations skill and
engaging but is not demonstrate an and will demonstrate good accuracy. Evidence of very
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consistent. equivalent degree of selection and editing skills; sound researching and reading
stylistic and formal themes, settings and subject skills. Accurate referencing.
control to the creative matter will largely be There may be occasional, but
work; characterized by appropriately chosen and not recurrent presentational
clarity and technical deployed with precision; or spelling errors.
rigour, they should offer structural control and narrative
a sustained analysis of momentum maintained
the work critiqued, throughout; few lapses in
drawing on the literary authorial control, with effective
context from which it use of dialogue, point of view
emerges. and narrative voice.
60-64 Solid attainment of Showing sound and An appreciable depth of Showing good skills of
B- virtually all intended thoughtful understanding. Some ability to planning, preparation and
learning outcomes. interpretation. Good handle and synthesise a range organization. Demonstrating
Work at this level will be level of analysis and of ideas. Language will good presentational skill and
competent and coherent evaluation. Some demonstrate good selection and accuracy. Evidence of very
throughout. evidence of a grasp of editing skills; themes, settings sound researching and reading
textual, contextual and and subject matter will largely skills. Accurat referencing.
theoretical knowledge. be appropriately chosen and There may be occasional,
Critiques will deployed with precision; perhaps recurrent,
demonstrate an structural control and narrative presentational or spelling
equivalent degree of momentum will be mostly errors.
stylistic and formal maintained throughout; few
control to the creative lapses in authorial control, with
work; they should offer effective use of dialogue, point
an analysis of the work of view and narrative voice.
critiqued though may Qualities of originality and
not be as rigourous in control somewhat diminished.
argument or technical
accomplishment, though
still drawing on the
literary context from
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which it emerges.
55-59 Clear attainment of most A circumscribed range A variable depth of Showing sound skills of
C+ of the intended learning of evidence. Less understanding of conceptual or planning, preparation and
outcomes. Work at this effective handling of theoretical material in evidence. organization. Demonstrating
level will be satisfactory textual, contextual and Signs of structured argument satisfactory presentational
throughout and theoretical knowledge. and organization of textual skill and accuracy. There may
sometimes engaging, but Critiques are competent detail. Clear writing with some be some presentational or
will not consistently but may have some errors of expression spelling errors. Evidence of
achieve the control and descriptive elements competent researching and
competence among the analysis; they reading skills. Mainly accurate
characteristic of higher offer some insight into referencing.
work, though some signs the work critiqued but
of B grade work are in draw only slightly on
evidence. wider literary context.
50-54 Clear attainment of most A circumscribed range A variable depth of Showing reasonable planning,
C the intended learning of evidence. Less understanding of conceptual or preparation and organization.
outcomes. Work at this assurance in theoretical material in evidence. Demonstrating basic
level will be satisfactory substantiating general Language will occasionally be presentational accuracy. Some
throughout and argument by textual original and inventive, but will evidence of researching and
sometimes engaging, but detail. Approach to the not consistently demonstrate reading skills. Recurrent
will not achieve the texts may mix the good selection and editing skills. spelling or presentational
control and competence descriptive and Some reliance on cliché; work errors. Inconsistent or
characteristic of higher analytical. Conventional lacks development; structural erroneous referencing may be
work. approaches control and narrative in evidence.
predominate, and draw momentum will be lacking;
only slightly on a wider authorial control will be
literary context. inconsistent.
40-49 Attainment deficient in Critiques will be Language will be basic and Very limited signs of planning,
F1 respect of specific superficial and slight. heavily reliant on cliché; preparation and organization.
intended learning Mixed evidence as to the themes, settings and subject Little presentational accuracy.
outcomes. depth of knowledge and matter will consistently be Evidence of very limited
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weak deployment of predictable and unengaging; researching and reading skills.


argument. Demonstrates very little narrative momentum, Multiple and recurrent spelling
a very simplistic or structural control, or attention and presentational errors.
erroneous grasp of the to pacing, so that it reads as
text and relevant incoherent and arbitrary;
contexts. Often authorial control will be absent;
inaccurate in matters of dialogue, point of view and
fact and description. narrative voice will seem
Poor interpretation. arbitrary and disjunctive.
Little evidence of
analysis and evaluation.
30-39 Attainment of intended Lacking secure basis in There is barely any evidence of Very limited signs of planning,
F2 learning outcomes relevant factual and genuine engagement with the preparation and organization.
appreciably deficient in analytical dimensions. course and the different Little presentational accuracy.
critical respects. currents necessary to maintain Evidence of very limited
a successful piece of work. researching and reading skills.
Multiple and recurrent spelling
and presentational errors.
0-29 No convincing evidence Treatment of the subject There is no evidence of No convincing signs of
F3 of attainment of any directionless and engagement with the course or planning, preparation and
intended learning fragmentary. No grasp of with the different currents organization. Mainly
outcomes. The work is the requirements of necessary to maintain a inaccurate presentation. No
short, banal and clichéd. undergraduate study. successful piece of work. obvious researching or reading
skills

Adapted with permission from Lancaster University, UK rubric for undergraduate creative writing programme.

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