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Environmental Creative Writing

Students will be writing an 800-1,000 word creative writing piece focusing on the environment. They must take into consideration the "hallmarks of environmental writing" that we've been using to analyze other writers.

Rubric Code: E5B533

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Subject: Science

Type: Writing

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Environmental Creative Writing
	Excellent The writer completely covers all required information. 5 pts	Very Good The writer does a good job applying the category to the journal article. 4 pts	Good There is a fair effort to do the reflection. 2.5 pts	Fair The assigned category needs work. 1 pts	Poor A poor job of providing the required information is performed by the writer. 0 pts
Observance of submission guidelines 5 pts Is able to submit on time and follow the guidelines/mechanics on writing the paper (double-spaced, 1-inch margin, font standards, etc)	Excellent Submitted on time and follows all the mechanics in writing the paper. • MLA 7th Edition formatting (DS, Time New Roman, MSWord format only) • Internal citations (if necessary) • 800-1,000 words	Very Good Late submission and/or misses an item in the mechanics.	Good Late submission and/or observes 75% of the guidelines.	Fair Late submission and/or observes less than 50% of the guidelines.	Poor Late submission and/or does not comply totally with any of the mechanics.
Hallmarks of environmental writing 5 pts Uses the hallmarks of environmental writing as studied in the unit. Derives insights from texts/materials discussed in class.	Excellent Uses all of the hallmarks of environmental writing and demonstrates an understanding of how those hallmarks are used based on the texts studied in class.	Very Good Uses most of the hallmarks of environmental writing and demonstrates an understanding of how those hallmarks are used based on the texts studied in class.	Good Uses some of the hallmarks of environmental writing and demonstrates an understanding of how those hallmarks are used based on the texts studied in class.	Fair Uses few of the hallmarks of environmental writing OR does not demonstrates an understanding of how those hallmarks are used based on the texts studied in class.	Poor Uses none of the hallmarks of environmental writing and does not demonstrates an understanding of how those hallmarks are used based on the texts studied in class.
Personal experiences 5 pts The writer shares a personal experience where she applies theories and where she manifests grasp of theories discussed in class.	Excellent The personal experiences of the writer are fully explained and related to the given theme or topic.	Very Good Personal experiences are clearly mentioned and expanded on.	Good Effort to develop and reflect on personal experience(s) is just fair.	Fair Personal experiences are poorly developed in the reflection.	Poor No personal experiences are given.
integration of ideas 5 pts Integrates the experience with related texts and insights derived from critical thinking.	Excellent Integrates personal experiences and insights very well, and comes up with deep theological insights, thus, whether progressive or prescriptive.	Very Good A very good attempt to integrate/synthesize experiences and insights.	Good Needs to improve more on integrating/synthesizing experiences and theological insights.	Fair Very little attempt to integrate/synthesize (needs expounding)	Poor No attempt to relate the experience with texts/materials/insights.

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