PROJECT 4 RUBRIC B: GROUP REFLECTION PAPER OF A DIGITAL
ADAPTATION OF A RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR A POPULAR AUDIENCE
Unacceptable
Rhetorical Purpose
To reflect on the
personal challenges and
decision-making process
of adapting a scholarly
work for a popular
audience in a digital and
primarily visual
composition.
Higher Order Concerns
(the Big Things)
Research & Evidence,
Structure: Reflection is
critical, linear, and
cohesive, with a larger
and insightful picture of
your group’s
experiences and
challenges as digital
composers. Reader is
left with a thorough
picture of your collective
experience and future
growth. Addresses
challenges and benefits
to working in a group,
and how your group
accommodated them.
Cites any sources via
APA or MLA style.
Research & Evidence:
Reflection includes
personal and specific,
concrete examples, and
detail as evidence. Point
of view and other
rhetorical considerations
are appropriate to a
personal reflection.
Research & Evidence:
Reflection leaves an
impression on reader of
your group’s growth as
communicators and
what needs more work.
Insufficient
Emerging
Effective
Excellent
Lower Order Concerns
(the Smaller Things)
Language: Follows the
grammar, mechanics,
and usage of Standard
Written English. Reads
as a polished and
proofread work. Signed
honor pledge.
Tone: Adopts a clear,
clean style and
thoughtful, objective
tone appropriate to
academic writing and
discourse.
Honor Pledge: We, ___________________________________________________________,
pledge that the reflection paper we are about to submit is our own work. We have presented
someone else’s ideas by summarizing, paraphrasing, or directly quoting them and those areas
are cited. We have asked for guidance where we did not know how to document materials
properly. We have not plagiarized—copied any language, phrasing, structure, or ideas; bought
any writing or had someone compose our video; used work from other courses, or neglected to
cite sources—in this work. We understand that plagiarism and other forms of academic
dishonesty will be handled through the Office of Student Conduct and may result in failure for
the project or for the course.