RUBRIC: Observation Reports 

                                         
English 297
Dr. Lamonica
Fall 2005 Student Name:

EXCELLENT STRONG SATISFACTORY REVISE & RESUBMIT

WHAT?
Content This portion of the report This portion of the report This portion of the report This portion of the report is
offers a detailed, coherent offers a well-developed, offers a complete description, sketchy or perfunctory,
description, demonstrating coherent description, suggesting the ability to suggesting an inability or
the ability to observe suggesting the ability to observe and produce a clear unwillingness to conduct and
carefully, keep thorough observe carefully and record of those observations.   report detailed observations.
records, and translate those generate a careful, coherent
into an engaging narrative.    record of those observations.  
SO WHAT?
Content This portion of the report This portion of the report This portion of the report This portion of the report is
offers a consistently offers a well-developed, clearly identifies at least one sketchy or perfunctory,
thoughtful, even insightful coherent discussion of the way in which the observation suggesting an inability or
discussion of the ways in ways in which the observation relates to the content of the unwillingness to consider how
which the observation relates relates to the content of the methods course (ENG 297) the observation relates to either
to the content of the methods methods course (ENG 297) and/or the observer’s pre- the content of the methods
course (ENG 297) and the and/or the observer’s pre- existing knowledge and course (ENG 297) or the
observer’s pre-existing existing knowledge and assumptions. observer’s pre-existing
knowledge and assumptions. assumptions. knowledge and assumptions.
NOW WHAT?
Content This portion of the report This portion of the report This portion of the report This portion of the report is
offers a consistently offers a well-developed, clearly identifies at least one sketchy or perfunctory,
thoughtful, even insightful coherent discussion of the way in which the observation suggesting an inability or
discussion of the ways in ways in which the observation might influence the observer’s unwillingness to consider how
which the observation might might influence the observer’s future learning, observation, the observation might influence
influence the observer’s future learning, observation, or pedagogical practice.  the observer’s future learning,
future learning, observation, or pedagogical practice.  observation, or pedagogical
or pedagogical practice.  practice. 
 OVERALL
Organization The report is so well The report is well organized, The report is logical, if The report lacks the kind of
organized that the audience is making it easily accessible to formulaic, in its organization. organization that makes it easily
scarcely aware of its its audience. It has an It may feature a funnel- accessible to its audience.
organizational and/or engaging introduction, strategy introduction and/or a
structural elements.  They logically organized elements, summary conclusion. The
seem to be simply another and a conclusion that is more organization makes is
logical part of an organic than a simple summary. accessible, but also
whole.  predictable.
Style The report is stylistically The report is stylistically The report is stylistically The report contains stylistic
sophisticated, suggesting that strong, suggesting that the sound, suggesting that the elements that suggest a lack of
the writer can revise adeptly writer can revise successfully writer can revise competently local revision and careful
at the local level, resulting in at the local level, paying at the local level, paying attention to issues such as
strong--even engaging-- careful attention to issues careful attention to issues syntax, diction, voice, tone, and
syntax, diction, voice, tone, such as syntax, diction, voice, such as syntax, diction, voice, so on.
and so on. tone, and so on. tone, and so on.
Correctness The report is virtually free of The report is essentially  free The report contains a number The report contains distracting
mechanical or grammatical of distracting mechanical or of mechanical or grammatical mechanical or grammatical
errors, demonstrating a grammatical errors, errors, suggesting a lack of errors, making it difficult to read
careful attention to editing suggesting careful attention to attention to editing and and undermining the author’s
and proofreading, upholding editing and proofreading and proofreading and ethos as a writing teacher.
—even  contributing to—the never undermining the undermining the author’s
author’s ethos as a writing author’s ethos as a writing ethos as a writing teacher.   
teacher.   teacher.  
Presentation/ The report demonstrates The report suggests careful The report is clearly and The report lacks attention to
Visual careful attention to—even a attention to presentational neatly formatted, making it presentational details such as
Elements certain creativity in relation to details such as formatting easy to read. formatting and neatness. As a
—presentational details such and neatness, inviting the result, it appears unappealing
as formatting and neatness. audience to engage with the and uninviting as a text. 
As a result, the audience is text. 
eager to engage with the
text. 

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