Opinion essays are discursive essays in which you present your personal opinion on a particular topic

Criteria	Descriptors
Content and Organization	·    information is relevant to the topic ·    text is well organized ·    content is easily understood ·    text is written mostly in pupil's own words		·    some information is irrelevant to the topic ·    text is fairly well organized ·    content is sometimes difficult to follow ·    chunks of the text are not written in pupil's own words		·    information is irrelevant to the topic ·    text is poorly organized ·    content cannot be understood ·    text is not written in pupil's own words