RE 5040, Fall 2004
Literacy Autobiography Assignment & Rubric
Your literacy autobiography should be a short (no more than
five pages, word processed) account of learning how to
read. Both home and school experiences are appropriate topics. You should try
to make your paper both interesting and professionally relevant. The rubric
below will be used in grading your autobiography;
please use it to guide your writing.
|
|
Beginning
|
Developing
|
Accomplished
|
Score Total 20 |
|
Content
|
Provides basic treatment of required elements |
Provides a comprehensive treatment of at least two required elements and basic treatment of the other two |
Provides a detailed and insigtful explanation of all elements. Provides detailed personal examples of the impact |
|
|
Scoring Continuum |
0 |
|
10 |
|
|
Writer's Craft Creativity, Flow, Organization, Transitions |
Loose organization: tangential information; lacks introduction and/or conclusion; unfocused |
Hard to follow in some places; some reorganization would enhance readability of the paper; lacks transitions. |
Smooth flow of ideas, paper is cohesive: includes introduction, conclusion, transitions, headings and subheadings. |
|
|
Scoring Continuum |
0 |
|
5 |
|
|
Mechanics Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling, APA |
Faulty punctuation; misspellings; sentence fragments and other mechanical errors, which detract from the content. |
Some grammatical, puncutation and APA errors. |
Appropriate punctuation, sentence and paragraph formation; appropriate use of APA style for references. |
|
|
Scoring Continuum |
0 |
|
5 |
|