Components of Writing

According to David Harris there are five general components in writing, they are:
a. Grammar
: The employment of grammatical pattern.
b. Content
: The substance or writing ideas express the unity
c. Organization : The organization of contents or the ideas, it is coherence or
not,
it is unified or not
d. Vocabulary : The selection word that is suitable with the content.
e. Mechanic
: The use of graphic conventions of the language.
The criteria of each writing score are: Content (0-20), Organization (0- 20), Grammar
(0-20), Vocabulary (0-20), and Mechanic (0-20). So, the total score for writing
descriptive paragraph are 100.

Components

of Score

Level

Indicator

Writing

Content

Grammar

16-20

Excellent All the developing sentences support

11-15

Good

the main idea.

There are some developing sentences

6-10

Fair

support the main idea.

Two of developing sentences support

0-5
16-20

the main idea.

Poor
There is no developing sentences.
Excellent All the sentences are written in the

11-15

good

right form of tenses.

There are some sentences are written

6-10

Fair

in the right form of tenses.

One of the sentences is written in the

0-5

Poor

right form of tenses.

There is no sentences in the right form

16-20

of tenses.
Excellent Writing summary really organized,
neat,

clear,

all

of

ideas

are

summarized, and the sequence is very

11-15

Good

logic.
Writing summary is organized, clear,
some of ideas are summarized, and the

Organization
6-10

Fair

sequence is logic.
Writing summary is less organized,
one of ideas is summarized, and the

Vocabulary

Mechanic

sequence is less logic.

There is no ideas that summarized and

0-5

Poor

16-20

the sequence is not logic.

Excellent All of vocabularies are written in

11-15

Good

English and used in correct manner.

Some of vocabularies are written in

6-10

Fair

Indonesian.
A quarter of vocabularies are written in

0-5

Poor

Indonesian.
A half of vocabularies are written in

16-20

Indonesia no attempt to write.

Excellent All of the sentences are using correct

11-15

Good

punctuation and spelling.

Some of all sentences are using correct

6-10

Fair

punctuation and spelling.

A half of sentences are using correct

0-5

Poor

punctuation and spelling.

A quarter of sentences are using
correct punctuation and spelling.

In conclusion, there are some criteria to measure the students' summary writing and it
has each writing score and level of score for each criteria, such as: for (0-5) it means
that poor score, (6-10) it means that the score is fair, (11-15) it means that the score is
good and for (16-20) it means that the score is excellent. And from all the score of
each criteria it can be the total score of students' writing summary.