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Comparative essay

This is how I will grade your essay on our two field trips

Rubric Code: D89C34

By martiebarylick

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Subject: Education

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: Graduate

Fieldwork Observation Journal
	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Content: Focus	Good You discuss both sites with focus on 3-4 areas of the "Observation Prompts." Same 3-4 prompts for both sites.	Fair Focus is on too few or too many prompts. You use different prompts for each site.	Poor What you write about is not focused on the prompts but on other things.
Content: reference Gibbons	Good Your observations refer generously to Gibbons. You refer to Styles by name. I read words like "episode," discovery, power arrangement.	Fair I understand from this that you have read Gibbons, but you do not use the lingo.	Poor Very few references to Gibbons' ideas.
Content: specificity	Good The details and descriptions in your observations allow me to experience what you saw and heard.	Fair I get a general idea of your what you saw and heard.	Poor Few specifics are present. Mostly generalizations. I have to guess what you saw and heard.
Writing	Good Standard essay with clear thesis. Sentences are complete and complex. The essay is developed in 3 pages.	Fair Sentences are complete. Essay is not richly developed.	Poor No thesis communicated. Thought is unclear due to faulty sentences.