Writing Assignment Evaluation Rubric (Academic Papers of Various Types)

Writing Assignment Evaluation Rubric (Academic Papers of Various Types): "Working With Ideas, Topics, And Texts


Engaging or interacting with ideas, topics and texts is essential to learning.

There are degrees and stages of engagement. You can say you think an idea is 'ridiculous', for example, or you can restate the idea, talk about several ways of thinking about it, and then make a considered judgment about the idea based on specific evidence. One way to describe the degrees or stages associated with something is by using a rubric, which organizes stages into categories. Often these categories build on each other, like the steps of a ladder. The following is a rubric explaining various progressive stages of engagement with ideas, topics and texts. "