Journal 8

ENG 510 Module Eight Journal Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: Journal activities in this course are private between you and the instructor. A course journal is generally made up of many individual assignments. The journals in this course will help to prepare you for Final Project II, the creative writing tool kit. In this final project, you will select creative writing styles and techniques that you believe will be most effective in both expressing your goals as a writer and reaching the audiences you plan to target in your work. Prompt: In your journal assignment, first answer this question: What is a “target audience”? What elements of an audience does any writer have to keep in mind while creating a literary work he or she intends to publish? In other words, what impact does the target audience have on a writer’s choices? Next, using How Defining Your Target Audience Can Make Your Story Stronger and the Genre Characteristics chart, identify your own target audience as a writer, answering the following questions:

 What are the conventions and/or expectations of your chosen genre (e.g., literary, horror, thriller, romance, young adult, historical)?Is there a particular age, gender, or political/religious viewpoint or demographic the ideal reader from your target audience might have?

 How will you meet these expectations in your future writing?

 How do the elements of voice and style appeal to your genre’s target audience? Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

 Define what a “target audience” is, and explain the impact of a target audience on an author’s choices for a literary work.

 Identify your target audience as a writer, providing specific details. For example, is there a particular age, gender, or political/religious viewpoint or demographic the ideal reader from your target audience might have?

 Describe the conventions and/or expectations of your chosen genre (e.g., literary, horror, thriller, romance, young adult, historical).

 Explain how these expectations will be met in your own writing. For example, how might you use elements of voice and style to appeal to your genre’s target audience?

Guidelines for Submission:Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.Your journal assignment should be no more than 500 words and any sources should be cited in MLA format.

Rubric

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Impact of Target Audience

Meets "Proficient" criteria and provides exceptional detail in explaining the impact of a target audience on an author’s choices

Defines what a target audience is and explains the impact of a target audience on an author’s choices for a literary work

Defines what a target audience is and explains the impact of a target audience on an author’s choices for a literary work, but response lacks detail, clarity, or accuracy

Does not define what a target audience is and does not explain the impact of a target audience on creating a literary work for publishing

22

Target Audience Meets "Proficient" criteria and provides exceptional detail in identifying a target audience

Identifies own target audience as a writer, providing specific details

Identifies own target audience as a writer, providing details, but response is unclear, lacks details or specificity, or is inaccurate

Does not identify own target audience as a writer

22

Conventions Meets "Proficient" criteria and provides exceptional detail in describing the conventions and/or expectations of chosen genre

Describes the conventions and/or expectations of chosen genre

Describes the conventions and/or expectations of chosen genre, but description is vague or lack details, is unclear, or is inaccurate

Does not describe the conventions and/or expectations of chosen genre

22

Expectations Meets "Proficient" criteria and provides exceptional detail in explaining how these expectations will be met in own writing

Explains how these expectations will be met in own writing

Explains how these expectations will be met in own writing, but explanation is unclear or lacks details

Does not explain how these expectations will be met in own writing

22

Articulation of Response

Journal assignment is free of errors in organization and grammar

Journal assignment is mostly free of errors of organization and grammar, which are marginal and rarely interrupt the flow

Journal assignment contains errors of organization and grammar but they are limited enough so that assignment can be understood

Journal assignment contains errors of organization and grammar that make the journal difficult to understand

12

Total 100%