Journal 1

ENG 520 Module One 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: For this journal assignment, explain your initial thoughts and goals for your own personal writing process. What medium do you hope to work in? Do you intend to be a novelist or would you like to write for television? Is there a particular genre on which you intend to focus? Provide details of your objectives as a writer and what has influenced your creativity to this point in your writing life. This will help you to begin the process of creating ideas for the final project. Then review the Final Project Rubric in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course. Reflect on the project and what you anticipate will be difficult, and ask any questions you may have about the final project. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Initial Thoughts and Goals: Explain your initial thoughts, goals, and objectives for your writing. What do you want to accomplish through your writing? 2. Medium/Genre: Describe the medium in which you would like to work as a writer and explain why. Describe the genre in which you intend to focus and

explain why. 3. Influences: Explain the people and/or things that influence your creativity and writing and provide a rationale for why this is so. 4. Final Project Reflection: Discuss possible challenges you anticipate with regard to the final project and include any questions you might have at this

time.

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 Initial Thoughts

and Goals Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides thoughtful insight on how these goals and objectives may someday be reached

Explains initial thoughts, goals, and objectives for the writing process, including desired accomplishments

Identifies initial thoughts, goals, and objectives for the writing process, but does not provide a sufficient explanation

Does not identify initial thoughts, goals, and objectives for the writing process

22.5

Medium/Genre Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides a detailed explanation of the chosen medium and genre, including specific examples of inspiration toward these choices

Describes the medium in which the student would like to work and the genre in which he/she intends to focus while providing a brief explanation

Identifies the medium and genre on which the student would like to focus, but does not explain why

Does not provide the medium and genre on which the student would like to focus

22.5

Influences Meets “Proficient” criteria and

provides a detailed explanation of specific reasons for influence

Explains the people and/or things that influence personal creativity and writing while providing a brief explanation

Explains the people and/or things that influence personal creativity and writing, but explanation is lacking in detail

Does not explain the people and/or things that influence personal creativity and writing

22.5

Final Project Reflection

Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides examples of why these chosen aspects of the project might be challenging for the story

Describes possible challenges with regard to the final project

Describes possible challenges with regard to the final project, but description is insufficient

Does not describe possible challenges with regard to the final project

22.5

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%