Week 9 Assignment: Dietary Needs for Patient with Heart Disease

Written Assignment Rubric

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Exemplary Accomplished Developing Beginning Organization

• Strong topic sentence addresses assignment prompt in highly focused and inviting way

• Reasons, details, facts relate to prompt in compelling, highly effective ways

• Varied and subtle transitions enhance the flow of the piece

• Strong conclusion revisits main idea with imagination

• Thorough plan with useful detail (when required)

• Topic sentence clearly focuses on prompt

• Reasons, details, facts directly relate to prompt

• Effective transitions; Interesting conclusion summarizes main idea

• Clear, careful plan (when required)

• Attempts a topic sentence

• Reasons, details, facts mostly relate to prompt

• Ineffective transitions

• Weak, repetitive conclusion

• Sketchy, inaccurate plan (when required)

• Absent/unclear topic sentence

• Reasons, details, facts do not relate to prompt

• No transitions

• No or inappropriate conclusion

• Little/ no plan (when required)

Content

• High quality information focuses on the prompt in engaging ways

• Intriguing and/or compelling examples, evidence and

• explanations bring topic to life

• Prompt/task fully developed

• All information is accurate and focused on task/topic

• Examples/explanations support topic

• Prompt/task developed consistently

• Information sometimes repeated and/or wanders from prompt/task; may contain inaccuracies

• Examples/explanations are incomplete; lacks detail

• Prompt/task/topic inconsistently or not adequately developed

• Information inaccurate, inadequate or omitted

• Examples/explanations unclear or missing

• Prompt/task not developed or may not be addressed

Style

• Rich, accurate vocabulary

• Engaging tone is appropriate for audience

• Varied sentence structure enhances the meaning and flow of the writing when read silently and/or aloud

• Clear, accurate vocabulary

• Tone is appropriate for audience

• Complete sentences with some variety allow the writing to competently flow when read silently and/or aloud

• Basic or inaccurate vocabulary

• Tone is inappropriate or immature

• Awkward, simple, or incomplete sentences with little variety detract from the flow of the writing when read silently and/or aloud

• Inaccurate vocabulary

• Tone misleads audience

• Awkward, short, choppy sentences, run-ons, and/or fragments make clear understanding of the writing nearly impossible when read silently and/or aloud

Writing

Conventions

• Accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation (0 errors). Accurate use of APA formatting consistently throughout the paper, title and reference page.*

• Manipulates conventions for stylistic effect—and it works!

• Grammatical, spelling & punctuation errors are rare (2 errors per page avg). Exhibits APA formatting throughout the paper, however, layout contains a few minor errors.

• Grammatical, spelling & punctuation errors are common (3 errors per page avg). Exhibits basic knowledge of APA formatting throughout the paper, but does not meet all APA requirements.

• Grammatical, spelling & punctuation errors significantly detract from meaning of paper (4+ errors per page avg). Fails to exhibit basic knowledge of APA style.

*See attached written assignment template and set-up instructions *Use the following resource for proper formatting: APA Citation Reference Guide