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