Annotated Bibliography and Presentation Assignment - 20 Hours
Running Head: Grading Rubric 1
Grading Rubric 4
Yolanda McNeil
ENGL 654
Liberty University
Assignment for a narrative essay:
Think about the goals you have for your future after high school. Thinking about your future goals, write a narrative essay including the following information in your essay:
· What are your future goals?
· How will you plan to achieve those future goals?
· Be specific, describe any challenges and/or obstacles that you feel you may encounter.
As you complete your essay, please review the attached grading rubric.
GRADING RUBRIC
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NARRATIVE |
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Description |
4 Skilled |
3 Proficient |
2 Developing |
1 Inadequate |
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Exposition: The text sets up a story by introducing the event/conflict, characters, and setting.
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The text engages and orients the reader by setting out a conflict, situation, or observation and its significance. It establishes one or multiple points of view and introduces a narrator and/or well-developed characters. |
The text orients the reader by setting out a conflict, situation, or observation and its significance. It establishes one point of view and introduces a narrator and/or well-developed characters. |
The text provides a setting with a vague conflict, situation, or observation with an unclear point of view. It introduces a narrator and/or underdeveloped characters. |
The text provides a setting with a vague conflict, situation, or observation. It has an unclear point of view and underdeveloped narrator and/or characters. |
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Narrative Techniques and Development: The story is developed using dialogue, pacing, description, reflection and multiple plot lines. |
The text demonstrates deliberate use of narrative techniques – such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines – to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. |
The text uses narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, reflection, to showing events, and/or experiences. |
The text uses some narrative techniques, such as dialogue or description and merely retells events and/or experiences. |
The text lacks narrative techniques and merely retells events and/or experiences. |
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Organization and Cohesion: The text follows a logical sequence of events. |
The text creates a smooth progression of experiences or events using a variety of techniques – such as chronology, flashback, foreshadowing, suspense, etc.- to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole. These techniques build toward a clear tone and outcome. |
The text creates a logical progression of experiences or events using a variety of techniques – such as chronology, flashback, foreshadowing, suspense, etc.- to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole. These techniques build toward a clear tone and outcome. |
The text creates a sequence or progression of experience or events. The text lacks an identifiable tone and/or outcome. |
The text lacks a sequence or progression of experiences or events or presents an illogical sequence of events. The text lacks an identifiable tone and/or outcome. |
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Style and Conventions: The text uses sensory language and details to create a vivid picture of events, setting, and characters. |
The text uses precise words and phrases, showing details and controlled sensory language and mood to convey a realistic picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. |
The text uses words and phrases, telling details and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. |
The text uses words and phrases, telling details to convey experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. |
The text merely tells experiences, events, settings, and/or characters. |
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Conclusion: Conclusion that follows from the course of the narrative. The conclusion provides a reflection on or resolution of the events. |
The text builds to a conclusion that logically flows from and reflects on what is experiences, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative. |
The text provides a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative. |
The text provides a conclusion that follows from what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative. |
The text may provide a conclusion to the events of the narrative. |