ENG 520 Module Ten 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. Prompt: In this final journal assignment, you will provide a description of how you have progressed as a writer throughout this term. You will consider how your skills as a storyteller have developed and you will discuss your methods of approaching and creating a story from the conception of the idea through the completed planning phase, where you have a completed story plan for a work that you intend to write. Comment on the process of pulling together all of the elements you have created throughout the term. Describe the development of your story from your initial idea to the final draft of your story plan. How has your approach to storytelling changed and how have you been influenced to develop stories differently in the future? How will you change your approach to planning both short and long stories using what you have learned in this course? Lastly, list at least two challenges that writers face and explain how you plan to overcome these obstacles. These obstacles might include writer’s block, a day job, the closed-door publishing industry, or even family responsibilities. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Skill Development: How have your skills improved as a writer? Describe how you have approached the creative writing process. How have you brought all the elements together?

2. Story Development: Describe the methods you have used to bring your story to fruition. How has this changed from when you began this course? How have you been further influenced?

3. Future Approach: Explain how you will approach your writing in the future. Has your approach changed? 4. Challenges and Obstacles: Discuss what you may face as challenges and obstacles in your writing process. What strategies will you use to overcome

these?

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 must be 300–400 words and any sources should be cited in MLA format.

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Skill Development

Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides thoughtful and detailed examples of improvements and approaches to writing

Describes how personal writing skills have improved throughout the course and how the creative writing process is approached, making connections between the two

Description of how personal writing skills have improved throughout the course and how the creative writing process is approached is insufficient and/or does not make connections between the two

Does not provide a description of how personal writing skills have improved throughout the course and how the creative writing process is approached

22.5

Story Development

Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides specific examples of how personal methods have evolved

Describes the methods used to develop a story, how these methods have changed throughout the course, and what has influenced these changes

The description of the methods used to develop a story, how these methods have changed throughout the course, and what has influenced these changes is lacking in detail

Does not describe the methods used to develop a story, how these methods have changed throughout the course, and what has influenced these changes

22.5

Future Approach Meets “Proficient” criteria and supports explanation with specific examples of how the student will approach future writing

Explains personal approach for future writing, describing how the student’s personal approach has changed

Explanation of future approach to developing a story and how the student’s personal approach has changed is lacking in detail

Does not explain a future approach to developing a story and/or how the student’s personal approach has changed

22.5

Challenges and Obstacles

Meets “Proficient” criteria and makes well-thought-out connections to the strategies discussed throughout the course

Describes possible future challenges and obstacles in the writing process and suggests strategies for overcoming these challenges and obstacles

Description of possible future challenges and obstacles in the writing process and suggestions of strategies for overcoming these challenges and obstacles is insufficient

Does not describe possible future challenges and obstacles in the writing process and/or suggest strategies for overcoming these challenges and obstacles

22.5

Articulation of Response

Journal assignment is free of errors in organization and grammar

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

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

Journal assignment contains errors of organization and grammar that make the journal difficult to understand

10

Total 100%