As many as 10 Points can be deducted
for:
thesis error; inadequate introduction;
inadequate conclusion; faulty organization; lack of unity; inadequate development
As many as 7 Points can be deducted
for:
fragment error; run-on, comma splice;
agreement error; topic sentence error; faulty pronoun reference
As many as 3 Points can be deducted
for:
semi-colon fault; error in case; shift
in tense; shift in person; shift in mood; shift in voice; error in verb
form; paragraph division; parallelism; no transition; misplaced modifier
or dangling modifier; choppy sentences; spelling error
As many as 2 Points can be deducted
for: clarity; capitalization;
awkwardness; wordiness; contraction; faulty diction; trite expression;
illegible; punctuation error; apostrophe error; comma error; colon error;
exclamation point; hyphen error; omit punctuation; period error; question
mark; quotation mark; abbreviation; wrong word; faulty subordination; word
left out