ENG 510 Module Seven Journal Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: Journal activities in this course are private between you and the instructor. A course journal is generally made up of many individual assignments. The journals in this course will help to prepare you for Final Project II, the creative writing tool kit. In this final project, you will select creative writing styles and techniques that you believe will be most effective in both expressing your goals as a writer and reaching the audiences you plan to target in your work. Prompt: For this journal assignment, compose a short scene, a poem, or an excerpt from a screenplay where two people argue about “something” but are really arguing about “something else.” For instance, perhaps the characters are arguing about whose responsibility it was to do a household task, when they are really arguing about one of the character’s immaturity. By the end of this short scene, the meaning of this “something else” should be clear to the reader—perhaps by using dialogue, thought, or one or both characters’ gestures or actions in a setting.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

? Communicate the details of the setting through action and dialogue (direct, indirect, or a combination of the two). Make sure you deliberately choose a setting that is not one or both of the characters’ home(s).

? Justify choices for the writing techniques used to convey the argument. What is the “something else”? What were the two characters really arguing about? What writing techniques did you use to convey this?

Guidelines for Submission: Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Your journal assignment should be no more than 400 words and any sources should be cited in MLA format.

Critical Elements Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement Not Evident Value Scene Meets “Proficient” criteria and

provides exceptional detail in composing a short scene, a poem, or an excerpt from a screenplay where two people argue about “something” but are really arguing about “something else” (100%)

Composes a short scene, a poem, or an excerpt from a screenplay where two people argue about “something” but are really arguing about “something else” (90%)

Composes a short scene, a poem, or an excerpt from a screenplay where two people argue about “something” but are really arguing about “something else,” but composition is unclear or lacks details (70%)

Does not compose a short scene, a poem, or an excerpt from a screenplay where two people argue about “something” but are really arguing about “something else” (0%)

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Setting Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides exceptional detail in communicating the details of the setting through action and dialogue (100%)

Communicates the details of the setting through action and dialogue (90%)

Communicates the details of the setting through action and dialogue, but communication is unclear or lacks details (70%)

Does not communicate the details of the setting through action and dialogue (0%)

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Writing

Techniques Justifies choices for the writing

techniques used to convey the argument (100%)

Justifies choices for the writing techniques used to convey the argument, but justification is unclear or lacks details (70%)

Does not justify choices for the writing techniques used to convey the argument (0%)

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Articulation of Response

Journal assignment is free of errors in organization and grammar (100%)

Journal assignment is mostly free of errors of organization and grammar, which are marginal and rarely interrupt the flow (90%)

Journal assignment contains errors of organization and grammar but they are limited enough so that assignment can be understood (70%)

Journal assignment contains errors of organization and grammar that make the journal difficult to understand (0%)

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