| Criteria | Percentage | Excellent (100.00%) |
| Content | 100.0% |
| Vision, Values, and Philosophy | 10.0% | Exemplary vision, values, and personal philosophy of innovative thinking are included. |
| Personal and Professional Development Opportunities | 10.0% | An exemplary description of personal and professional development opportunities to grow as an innovative leader is included. |
| Leader Qualities for Renovating Innovation Within an Organization | 20.0% | An exemplary description of leadership qualities for renovating the innovativeness of an organization is included. |
| Presentation of Content | 30.0% | The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea. |
| Layout | 10.0% | The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text. |
| Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.) | 10.0% | The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope. |
| Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use) | 5.0% | Writer is clearly in control of standard, written, academic English. |
| Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to assignment and style) | 5.0% | Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error. |
| Total Weightage | 100% |