EXCELLENT
THIS LETTER WILL
DEFINITELY BE ACCEPTABLE TO YOUR BOSS

GOOD
THIS LETTER HAS A FEW PROBLEMS BUT YOUR BOSS WILL NOT BE DISSATISFIED

NOT PASSING
THIS LETTER HAS TOO MANY PROBLEMS AND WILL BE UNACCEPTABLE TO YOUR BOSS
 

SCORE

 

3

2

1

 

Format

·  Sender address, inside address and date are in proper order.




·  Salutation is correctly punctuated.

 

 

 


·  
Letter is single spaced with a blank line between paragraphs.

 

 
 

·  Closing appears at the end of the letter and is correctly spaced.

·  Sender address, inside address, and date incorrectly ordered.


·  Some punctuation in address and salutation is incorrect

 

·  Parts of letter are not correctly spaced.

 

 

 

·  An improper closing is used following the body of the letter or has less than 3 blank spaces between closing and signature.

 

·  One or more of the addresses or date is missing.



·  
Incorrect punctuation is used in the address and salutation.

 

·  Letter has many problems wih spacing, too much or too little throughout and/or word-wrap has not been used.

 ·  Closing is not included or does not include signature information.

 

Accuracy

·  Information in the letter is correctly keyed regarding spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.




 

·  No grammar errors appear in the letter.

·  Several words in the letter are misspelled or not capitalized as they should be.  Some sentences have punctuation problems.

·  Occasional grammar errors appear.

·  Many spelling, punctuation, and/or capitalization errors appear.





Many grammar errors appear throughout the letter.

 

Readability

·  All parts of the letter are easily readable.

·  Parts of the letter are readable after study but not immediately.

·  Either the font or the font size makes the addresses, body or closing so unreadable as to limit understanding of the letter.

 

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