This product is a rubric I made and developed over the years to grade student essay projects. Moreover, I used student-friendly language to help students understand the five main rubric categories for grading essays: focus, content, organization, style, and mechanics (or conventions). If you want students to learn and understand what these five categories mean and actually include, then this rubric is for you. The rubric is also an efficient grading tool: simply highlight the boxes (where s