A Rubric for Translation

Criteria 1 2 3 4
Text realization Complete transfer almost complete transfer of general transfer
and from ST transfer ideas but with a undermined by
number of lapses in serious
Understanding
accuracy inaccuracies
Clarity TT delivers clear TT message is TT have unclear TT have no
information to the somehow unclear ideas
audience to the audience
Grammar complete almost complete TT has a number of a large number of
grammatical grammatical grammatical grammatical
sentences sentences mistakes mistakes
Cohesion and TT read as one TT is almost read as TT is a bit TT is completely
Naturalness original piece One original piece desultory desultory

Spelling and
Style and register TT contains few TT contains TT contains
Style
are appropriate for or no frequent excessive
inappropriate inappropriate
the topic in the TL inappropriate
term or and/or incorrect
with rare spelling style/register terms or and/or incorrect
error choices and a few style/register terms or
spelling errors choices with a style/register
number of choices and a huge
spelling errors. number of spelling
errors