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"Writing is the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me."
--S.A. Williams
EVALUATING PAPERS BYU-I Writing Rubric
The Writing Rubric is designed to help in evaluating many different writing projects and can be changed or modified to fit a particular assignment—from research papers to lab reports. In the evaluation process, it helps to break down the project into parts and examine them to see how each contribute to the whole, while remembering that the purpose of academic writing is to communicate and connect with an audience.
Objective: To create a document that meets the needs of an intended audience.
Intended Audience _______________________________________________________Purpose for Writing_______________________________________________________ |
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Area |
Audience Needs |
Self |
Peers |
Prof. |
Content |
FOCUS Can the audience restate the document's main idea? Will the audience consider the document’s scope to be neither too broad nor too narrow? DEVELOPMENT Is the audience satisfied with how thoroughly the subject has been explored? LOGIC Does the audience see the writer’s reasoning as sound, sensible, and free of fallacies? EVIDENCE Is the audience satisfied with the amount of direct support provided (i.e., details, examples, surveys, statistics, quotations, textual references, etc)? Is each generalization supported by evidence from reputable sources? |
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Order |
STRUCTURE Can the audience follow and recall the document's organization? UNITY Can the audience see how each detail, paragraph, and section contribute to the document's main idea? (Has unnecessary padding been eliminated?) |
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Language |
CLARITY Does the audience understand the document without having to re-read sentences or guess at intended meaning? STYLE Is the audience comfortable with the way sentence structure, tone, and vocabulary convey meaning? MECHANICS Is the audience comfortable with the level of grammatical and mechanical control? (Has the document been edited and proofread carefully to get rid of distracting errors?) |
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Integrationof SourceMaterial |
INTEGRATION Is the audience comfortable with how needed source material is worked into the document? (Are quotations, graphs, tables, or figures introduced and discussed?) DOCUMENTATION Is the audience satisfied with how needed sources are documented? (Is the documentation style consistent throughout?) |
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Additional comments
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