| Writing Rubric for Scientific Article |
| | 1
Does Not Meet (F) | 2 Partially Meets (D) | 3 Meets (C) | 4
More Than Meets (B) | 5 Exceeds (A) |
| CONTENT (SYNOPSIS), DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS AND CRITICAL THINKING | Writing does not clearly communicate knowledge. Conceptually contradictory statements between some of the arguments. | Writing is extremely limited in communicating knowledge, with no central themes with much repetition of arguments, leaving the reader with questions. Length is not adequate for development. | Expresses the central themes and writes related, quality paragraphs, but with little or no details. | Writing is purposeful and focused. Piece contains some clear additional details. | Writing is confidently strong and clearly focused with many precise, relevant details. Writing also elaborates additional statements not necessarily included in the article, and criticizes (objectively with facts) the strongest or weakest points of the article. |
| ORGANIZATION/ STRUCTURE | Writing is disorganized and underdeveloped with no clear beginning, middle, closure. | Writing is brief, underdeveloped or confusing and very loosely organized. Weak transition between sentences and paragraphs. Poor connection between the ideas, these barely flowing with each other. Poor beginning, middle, and closure. | Satisfactory transition between sentences and paragraphs. Ideas connect although, forcefully and broken. Satisfactory beginning, middle, and closure. | Good transitions between sentences and paragraphs. Ideas are well connected and flow with ease. Good beginning, middle, and closure. | Excellent transitions between sentences and paragraphs. Ideas are very well connected, support each other and flow consistently throughout. Excellent beginning, middle, and closure. |
| WORD CHOICE/SPELLING | Careless or inaccurate word choice, which obscures meaning. Many spelling and punctuation errors. | Language lacks originality or is vague. Some spelling and punctuation errors. | Shows some use of varied word choice. Moderate spelling and punctuation errors. | Purposeful and varied use of word choice. Very little spelling or punctuation errors. | Effective, engaging and eloquent use of word choice. No spelling or punctuation errors. |
| STYLE | Frequent run-ons or fragments, with no variety in sentence structure. | Many run-ons or fragments. Little variety in sentence structure (repetition). | Uses simple compound, and complex, sentences, but still some run-ons or fragments. | Uses frequent and varied sentence structure. | Consistent variety of sentence structure throughout make writing strong and interesting. |
| PARTICIPATION | No active oral participation was offered in the discussions. | A minimum of one comment was offered thoughtout the whole dissusion of the articles and it was poorly ellaborated. | A minimum of one argument was disscussed per article and these were satisfactorily ellaborated, but not with much detail. | More than one argument was disscussed per article and these were ellaborated in detail and clearly expressed. | Clear, active, constant oral postulations were maintain throughout the disscussion of all the articles. Arguments ellaborated on the themes covered and beyond. Arguments were covered in detail, with depth, and utilizing critical thinking skills that enhanced the discussion and the participation of others. |
| FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS | All four instruction criteria were not completed. | Three of the instruction criteria were not completed as should have. | Two of the instruction criteria were not completed as should have. | One of the instruction criteria were not completed as should have. | Instructions were followed and completed as should have. |
| | Assignment was turn in late. | | | | Assignment was turn in on due date. |
| | Incorrect font size and sentence spacing (single space). | | | | Correct font size and sentence spacing was used (single space). |
| | Incorrect length of assignment (minimum one page and maximum two pages front and back per article) | | | | Correct length of assignment (minimum one page and maximum two pages front and back per article) |
| | No critical questions or citations were included. | | | | All critical thinking questions were included Three for all articles. |
| Failure to turn in assessmet on time will result in one point deduction per date late in addition to the point deduction in the rubric. |
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