Intended to familiarize persons with the scoring standards and criteria used for the Georgia Basic Skills Writing Test, this scoring manual is in eight sections: (1) an introduction to the scoring dimensions and scale points; (2) definitions of the four scale points; (3) definitions of scoring dimensions and components (content and organization, style, sentence formation, usage, and mechanics); (4) guidelines for scoring; (5) suggestions for keeping the dimensions separate; (6) model papers; (7) nonscorable paper codes; and (8) a glossary. (SR)