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Dangers of the Internet Article Summary

Find an article that contains a story about a teenager/child/college-student whose life was affected (positively or negatively) as a result of one of the 4 the topics discussed in class: 1. Cyber-bullying 2. Pornography 3. Sexual Predators 4. Damaged Reputations

Rubric Code: L47W67

By Anta81

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Subject: Computers

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 9-12

Dangers of the Internet Article
	Poor 0 pts	Fair 10 pts	Good 15 pts	Excellent 20 pts
Mechanics 20 pts Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization, and Sentence Structure.	Poor Student makes more than 6 errors in grammar, sentence structure, or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Fair Student makes 4-6 errors in grammar, sentence structure, or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Good Student makes 1-3 errors in grammar, sentence structure, or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Excellent Student makes no errors in grammar, sentence structure, or spelling that distract the reader from the content.
5'Ws and H 20 pts Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. If applicable.	Poor Most supportive facts and statistics were inaccurately reported. Article is poorly explained and/or summary is mostly plagiarized.	Fair Some supportive facts and statistics are reported accurately. Weak explanation and/or summary that is partially plagiarized.	Good Almost all supportive facts and statistics are reported accurately. Article is mostly explained and/or summarized in own words.	Excellent All supportive facts and statistics are reported accurately. Article is fully explained and summarized in own words.
Source 20 pts Use the Microsoft Word Bibliography feature.	Poor There was no source cited within the paper or the article was not current.	Fair There was a source cited but the validity of the source was questionable. The date and author was not given and/or article was not attached to the summary.	Good The source was properly cited from a reliable website or newspaper/magazine. The information appeared to be recent, however, the date and/or author were not cited within the paper.	Excellent The source was properly cited from a reliable website or newspaper/magazine. The article was current and the citation contained all given data.
Proper Formatting and Organization 20 pts Times New Roman Font size 12 Double-spaced Heading and Article Title At least 1.5 Pages 3 Questions Name and Current Date Attached Article	Poor The article was missing more than 4 of the formatting criteria.	Fair The article summary was missing 2 -3 of the formatting criteria.	Good The article summary was missing at least 1 of the formatting criteria.	Excellent Article summary is typed in Times New Roman font size 12, has a heading, title, and is submitted on time. Summary is 1.5 pages and double spaced. A newspaper article of sufficient length is attached.
4 Dangers of the Internet 20 pts Students define the internet danger the article was related to.	Poor The article summary did not include a term.	Fair The article summary included a term but it was not one of the four dangers of the internet and/or it did not give a detailed definition.	Good The article summary included one of the terms but did not give a detailed definition.	Excellent The article summary included a detailed definition of one of the four dangers of the internet.

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dangers of the internet, cyberbullying, pornography, sexting,

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