Journal 4

ENG 520 Module Four 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. For this course, you will keep a journal in which you will reflect on the knowledge gained throughout the course and document your growth as a writer and how your own ideas about creative writing evolved. Prompt: Consider the advice provided in the module resources. Review the following three videos:

 How to Plot Any Novel in 7 Easy Steps (6:13)

 Writing Skills: How to Write a Plot (2:20)

 Screenplay Structure: The Five Plot Points (6:36) Then write a journal assignment to discuss what advice you plan to use in developing the plot outline for your story. Explain which piece of advice had the biggest impact on your intended approach to plotting your story. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Application of Advice: Describe the advice you plan to use in the development of the plot outline for your story and why you chose to use this particular advice.

2. Impact on Approach: Explain which piece of advice had the biggest impact on your intended approach to plotting your story and why.

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 must be 300–400 words and any sources should be cited in MLA format.

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

Advice Meets “Proficient” criteria and speaks specifically to aspects of the plot that will be affected by the implementation of the chosen advice

Describes the advice the student plans to use in the development of the plot outline for his/her story and provides a rationale for choice

Describes the advice the student plans to use in the development of the plot outline for his/her story but does not provide a rationale for choice

Does not describe the advice the student plans to use in the development of the plot outline for his/her story

45

Impact on Approach

Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides specific examples of the story’s plot and how they were impacted by the chosen advice

Explains which piece of advice had the biggest impact on the student’s intended approach to plotting his/her story and provides a rationale

Explains which piece of advice had the biggest impact on the student’s intended approach to plotting his/her story but does not provide a rationale

Does not explain which piece of advice had the biggest impact on the student’s intended approach to plotting his/her story

45

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

10

Total 100%