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Descriptive Details
- Detailed, vivid descriptions using the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
- Details are shown not told
- Dialogue moves the plot, increasing suspense, showing readers a trait(s) of the character(s), and/or changing the situation or conflict the characters are in
- Setting is the backdrop of the story.
- Characters are known through physical description, dialogue, and/or interaction with others.
- Length is two pages, no more than three.
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15/15 |
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Organization
- Story is told in multiple paragraphs.
- Paragraph breaks occur when the scene shifts.
- Each time a different character speaks a new paragraph is created.
- The story arcs like Freytag’s plot chart.
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15/15 |
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Point of View
- Written in first-person point of view.
- Uses the pronouns I, me, my, myself, we, us, our, ourselves.
- Doesn’t use second-person pronouns: you, your, yourself except in dialogue.
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15/15 |
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Word Choice
- Uses specific nouns.
- Uses action verbs.
- Does not use words like really, always, very, a lot.
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10/10 |
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Sentence Structure
- No fragments.
- No run-on sentences.
- No awkwardly constructed statements.
- Well-crafted sentences.
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15/15 |
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Usability/Storytelling/Ton
- Effective with little or no additional revisions
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10/10 |
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Mechanics
- Grammar, especially correct verb tense.
- Capitalization of proper nouns
- Punctuation, especially commas and periods.
- Spelling
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10/10 |
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Format
- Name heading
- Title
- Double-spaced
- 1″ margins
- 12 pt. easy-to-read font
- Page number heading
- Paragraphs indented 5 to 7 spaces–one tab.
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10/10 |
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