Project 1: Document Series Scoring Rubric
After submitting your three documents, take a look at the Project 1 rubric below.
Go through each category, read the description carefully, and honestly assess your draft–are there places in each category where you could improve? Are you more confident in some categories than others? When rating your document from 1-6, try to be honest with your critique so you know what issues are most important to focus on when you view the feedback file and start to revise. Use the comments section in each rubric category to write specific notes that you might forget in a couple weeks.
1. Identifying Purpose
The writer has explicitly identified the purpose of the document at the beginning and has consistently maintained that aim throughout the document.
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2. Identifying Audience
The writer has identified the target audience of the document in the beginning and addressed the target audience consistently throughout the document.
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3. Selection of Genre
The writer has selected a correspondence genre (email, letter, or memo) that is appropriate, persuasive, and rhetorically effective given the intended purpose and audience the document.
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4. Maintaining Professional Writing Style
The writer utilizes concise diction, logical paragraph construction, and appropriate professional tone throughout the document.
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5. Document Design
The writer has effectively applied principles of document design to create professional documents that are visually appealing and easily readable by the target audience.
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6. Holistic Score
Overall, the writer effectively constructed multiple forms of business correspondence (email, letter, memo) to respond effectively to a specific audience for a particular purpose. The writer’s attention to elements of style, genre expectations, and rhetorical principles led to the production of appropriate, persuasive documents.
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