Combine all of the business writing skills that you have gained from this course, create and design a blog with www.blogger.com. Choose and copy an article from a magazine supplied from your instructor and write 5 separate entries in your blog covering these 5 topics:
- Wellness in the Workplace
- Productivity in the Workplace
- Time Management in the Workplace
- Ergonomics in the Workplace
- Your choice of topic in the Workplace
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Business
Communications II
RUBRICS
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Level
of Mastery
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Level
1
A limited mastery of knowledge and
skills: below basic expectations
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Level
2
A partial mastery with limited to basic
performance or expected
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Level
3
A solid consistent performance;
demonstrated competency of knowledge and skills
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Level
4
A superior, consistent performance;
beyond expectations
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major problems exist
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minor problems exist
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minor issues exist
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No issues exist
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Organization and Layout
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Disorganization and incoherence in thoughtfulness
and layout.
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Problems exist with both organization and layout.
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Organizational requirement’s met (I.e., thinking
and content). Issues exist re: structure and layout of material.
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Document has a professional look and feel.
Requirements are met: good opening, closing, overall effect, strategy,
organization, completeness, accuracy.
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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7.5
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8
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8.5
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9
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9.5
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10
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Writing Skills
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Loses sight of the main topic, no evidence to
support topic. In concise thoughts, fragmented sentences etc.
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Ineffective writing related to concepts &
activities experienced during the course & reflect a thorough
understanding of the course content.
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Writing shows comprehension of related topic &
reflects a suitable understanding of the course content.
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Writing is related to topic. Good tone, goodwill
effect, clarity, coherence fluency, written expression, word choice. Clearly
written understanding the topic.
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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7.5
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8
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8.5
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9
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9.5
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10
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Revising, Proofreading and Evaluating
(as per peer feedback in Wiki)
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Significant and many grammar, spelling and
punctuation errors are throughout.
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Writing skills are below the expected level as
reflected in many grammar, spelling and punctuation errors and poor sentence
structure.
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Writing contains minor grammatical, spelling and
punctuation errors and poor sentence structure.
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Writing is free of grammatical, spelling and
punctuation errors and displays good sentence structure.
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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7.5
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8
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8.5
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9
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9.5
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10
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Citations, Quotes, Paraphrasing,
Copyright
Rearticulate, rephrase, reword, rework,
redraft
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NOT 100% OWN WORK
Did not use own words.
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Did not use citations, quotes or
paraphrasing.
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Used citations, quotes, paraphrasing
incorrectly
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ORIGINALITY Completely written with own words and used
peer feedback to make a faultless comprehensive document.
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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7.5
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8
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8.5
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9
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9.5
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10
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A rubric is a descriptive
scoring (or marking) scheme developed by instructors to guide judgements about
the products or processes of students' learning through an assessment task. Quoted from: FLINDERS
UNIVERSITY, www.flinders.edu.au/teaching/teaching-strategies/assessment/grading/rubric.cfm
