APSC-100 (2010-2011) Written Communications Rubric 1 2 3 4 Mark (not demonstrated) (marginal) (meets expectations) (outstanding) (/4) Purpose and Unclear purpose. Tone Some aspects of presentation purpose is met. Professional tone and style and style inappropriate. don’t achieve purpose. Formal tone and style style. Authoritative and /4 Audience needs not met. appropriate to audience convincing Coherence and Poorly organized; Organization sometimes Organized, appropriate Focused, logically Format rambling, lacks unity; unclear; some unsuitable sections, uniformly and organized; skillful and /4 Sequence, Inconsistent sections, minor gaps or correctly formatted; varied transitions. transitions, writing/formatting; lacks redundancies, minor little irrelevant Professionally formatted. formatting transitions; many gaps or formatting problems; some information. No irrelevant information redundancies. wordy expressions . "This Handwritten material. is/There is/It is" … Graphical Figures and tables not Some figures and tables not Figures and tables Figures and tables communications related to text. Improper discussed in text. referred to in text, professionally formatted, /4 referencing of figures. Figure/table captions captioned. Appropriate integrated into text, List of tables/figures missing. Incomplete/ lists of figures/tables. complementing text missing. inconsistent list of tables/ figures. Correctness Numerous grammar Some grammar/ punctuation Relatively free of No typos or grammatical errors; disorganized errors; spelling; incomplete grammar/ punctuation errors; attractively and sentence structure; sentences. errors; specified; professionally formatted. /4 inappropriate units or acronyms and symbols significant digits; defined acronyms not defined Erroneous or incomplete Sources summarized with Summarizes and Multiple authoritative, Information /4 conclusions drawn from minor misconceptions. paraphrases appropriate objective, reliable sources, or inappropriate sources accurately with sources used; cited and 3.07-FY3: Summarizes quality or quantity of appropriate citations formatted properly accurately background information. Overall: /
APSC-100 (2010-2011) Written Communications Rubric 1 (not demonstrated) 2 (marginal) 3 (meets expectations) 4 (outstanding) Mark (/4) Purpose and style Unclear purpose. Tone and style inappropriate. Audience needs not met. Some aspects of presentation don’t achieve purpose. purpose is met. Formal tone and style appropriate to audience Professional tone and style. Authoritative and convincing /4 Coherence and Format Sequence, transitions, formatting Poorly organized; rambling, lacks unity; Inconsistent writing/formatting; lacks transitions; many gaps or redundancies. Handwritten material. Organization sometimes unclear; some unsuitable sections, minor gaps or redundancies, minor formatting problems; some wordy expressions . "This is/There is/It is" … Organized, appropriate sections, uniformly and correctly formatted; little irrelevant information. Focused, logically organized; skillful and varied transitions. Professionally formatted. No irrelevant information /4 Graphical communications Figures and tables not related to text. Improper referencing of figures. List of tables/figures missing. Some figures and tables not discussed in text. Figure/table captions missing. Incomplete/ inconsistent list of tables/ figures. Figures and tables referred to in text, captioned. Appropriate lists of figures/tables. Figures and tables professionally formatted, integrated into text, complementing text /4 Correctness Numerous grammar errors; disorganized sentence structure; inappropriate units or significant digits; acronyms not defined Some grammar/ punctuation errors; spelling; incomplete sentences. Relatively free of grammar/ punctuation errors; specified; acronyms and symbols defined No typos or grammatical errors; attractively and professionally formatted. /4 Information 3.07-FY3: Summarizes accurately Erroneous or incomplete conclusions drawn from sources, or inappropriate quality or quantity of background information. Sources summarized with minor misconceptions. Summarizes and paraphrases appropriate sources accurately with appropriate citations Multiple authoritative, objective, reliable sources used; cited and formatted properly /4 Overall: /
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