Below you will find the rubric I use to help you strengthen your internet writing. This should help you craft good work for your portfolio. Do not underestimate writing skills in landing a good job. So use this time to practice ways to empower your ideas and get yourself noticed.
You need not do ALL of these in the first assignment, but you should start to add a few to each assignment until by the end of the term you are as many of the techniques as needed. In sum, for each revision, try to add a few at a time to strengthen your prose and make your writing stronger.
Of course the more you do sooner, the better this will be reflected in your grade. In order to get at least a B, you will need to add a few of these for each assignment. For an A, you’d have to add more…
- Technical
- Do I have a relevant featured image?
- Did I use any other relevant images in my post?
- Did I use the quote feature to indent and distinguish my quotes?
- Did I use lists and headings to visually organize my info?
- Sources
- Did I give full quotes–a whole sentence with some supporting context? ie I get the full meaning of what the author was saying.
- Did I interpret the quote correctly and accurately, or just bend it to fit my point? Maybe I need another quote or source?
- Did I cite the entire article name, plus the URL?
- Did I use the link feature in WP to make links to article, so my readers can find it?
- Did I use links in the body of my writing to refer to related points, give definitions or examples?
- Writing strength
- Voice—Was I candid and thoughtful about my own experience and use it to help me understand concepts , and did I give very specific examples of them?
- Content—Did I address the key issues of the readings or in my actual life?.
- Organization—Was my approach haphazard, or did I organize my thoughts clearly and coherently in a way that’s easy for readers to follow?
- Coherence—Have I brought together multiple views and made sense of them in my own way and expressed this clearly?
- Persuasion—Did I draw from both experience and from sources in a way that feels accurate, intelligent and trustworthy and so my writing has the ability to influence readers?.
- Richness—Did I bring together enough content, and experience, quotes, and resources, so that the knowledge I am articulating is compelling and satisfying, like a healthy robust meal for the mind?
- Complexity—Was I able to bring together diverse perspectives as I try to formulate my own thinking, and was I able to consider compelling arguments that may be very different from my own original position, so that readers can actually see learning happen?
- Sources—Was I able to use other writing and source to develop my own thinking and did I quote and/or summarize sources clearly?
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