| A | B |
| Voice | This really sounds like me! |
| Word Choice | My words create mind pictures. |
| Sentence Fluency | It sounds good, it flows! |
| Conventions | I don't have a lot fo mistakes in my paper. |
| Organization | You can follow it easily. |
| Ideas | My paper has a purpose. |
| Personal Narrative | It is a story about me and my experiences. |
| Essay | A piece of factual writing on a single topic which can explain, argue, or describe an ideas in an interesting way |
| Summary | A shortened, condensed form of the writing which captures the main ideas. |
| Expository | A piece of writing which explains something. |
| Metaphor | The trees were giants in the dark woods. |
| Simile | He was as sly as a fox. |
| Idiom | His career as a rock star was just a flash in the pan. |
| Literary Response | Response to a piece of writing showing it was understood by connecting to it. |