Business Writing Assignment: Business & Technical Communication/Accounting

Business Writing Guidelines and Grading Rubric

The writing for Business assignment will be dispensed at a later date. The assignment will be

submitted through Blackboard by the deadline. Late assignments will not be accepted.

Guidelines for Business Writing:

This written assignment will follow specific industry standard formats. Students must utilize sufficient

time to develop thoughts, research materials where necessary, and articulate findings, facts,

assumptions, and evidence to support arguments.

There will be 1 writing assignment. It will be explained in more detail when it is assigned.

1. Email Cover Letter - the focus of this assignment will be to write an email when applying for a

specific job.

Business Writing Grading Rubric

(Modified from Texas Education Agency & Margaret Goralski)

CATEGORY

Grade

Mastery

A

Proficient

B

Average

C

Developing

D

Unacceptable

F

Organization

10%

Writing assignments that use the correct format, are not missing

elements, and have no issues will earn full points.

Sample issues include; incorrect formatting, missing salutation

information, organized incorrectly, not titled correctly, not addressed

correctly

Content

45%

Writing assignments that cover the assignment fully, state the purpose in

the writing, use facts to support the main idea and have no issues will

earn full points.

Sample issues include; not the assignment, not enough detail, not

personalized, off topic, missing content information, requests not backed

up, hard to follow, tone too informal, missing elements

Language

Usage

45%

Writing assignments that have no errors in grammar, punctuation,

spelling, language usage, and have no issues will earn full points.

Sample issues include; spelling, grammar, punctuation, does not make

sense, run on sentences, too many thoughts in a sentence, language

usage errors