Six Traits

The quality of a claim/thesis statement

A concluding line/paragraph that ties a piece of writing together

Use of a semicolon to combine two closely-related sentences

Maintaining third-person POV in a piece of academic writing

Misuse of a semicolon (e.g., I like jelly; but I prefer jam)

Using transition sentences between paragraphs

Language that's confusing, so it's hard to understand what the writer is trying to say

Quality of the textual evidence used to support the claim

Believable narrator in a piece of creative writing

Misusing a vocabulary word (e.g., that was an ignominy act)

Misused apostrophe (e.g., say's)

Writing that includes a variety of sentence lengths/types