Organizational Strategies

COM 340 Grading Rubric

Assignment: Organizational Strategies

Instructions As Chapter 12 of our text tells us, partition and classification are two ways of dividing a subject. Classification divides and groups subjects that have some similarities into categories; partition divides one subject into parts. Subjects can be classified and partitioned in many different ways, depending upon the characteristic(s) the writer thinks is important. Assume that you are shopping for a laptop computer. Shop an Internet site and classify the laptops you find there into three or four categories. Then select one category and find three laptops that fit that category. Partition each of these laptops using three or four different features that are important to you (For example, you could use size of laptop, number of features, etc.). In your paper, list the categories of laptops you created and the features of the laptops you partitioned. Include one paragraph in which you discuss what you learned from this exercise. Be sure to cite the source of your information and to include a properly formatted title page on your assignment.

Grading Criteria

Organizational Strategies 5 points possible

Content Criteria Weight

Assignment classified items into three or four logical categories.

2 Assignment selects one category and lists three items that fit that category.

Assignment partitions each of the three category items into three of four features.

Assignment discusses student learning from the exercise.

Writing Skills

Narrative paragraph is representative of good academic writing and assignment is spell checked and grammar checked.

2

Research Criteria Meets assignment guidelines by selecting an appropriate Internet site and appropriate topic and citing the source properly.

0.5

Style Criteria

Assignment includes a title page prepared in proper APA style. 0.5