JRN 300 Grading Matrixes
Newsday #3 Assignment
Student name:
Lead
| Awesome (grabs attention and provides an accurate sense of what the story will deliver) |
/3 |
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| Good – kind of interesting but I’m not sure where you’re heading) | ||
| Needs work – after reading it, I probably wouldn’t keep reading | ||
| Inverted Pyramid
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Yes – Story is organized so that the last paragraphs can be cut without losing the point of the story |
/2 |
| Not so much – Important information is left to the end and/or last paragraphs summarize story (which is not required!) | ||
| Quotations and attributions | Awesome – add interesting voices to the story, provide colour, explain significance of facts, explains impacts on real people; Make absolutely clear how the people you quote are relevant to the story |
/3 |
| Good – add voices and some sense of the way the issue impacts or has significance for people; I understand how the people you quote are relevant to the story | ||
| Lame – you need to find different sources or keep pressing the ones you got for better quotes | ||
| CP Style | Perfect | /1 |
| Overall story quality | Awesome – publishable | /1 |
| Total | /10 | |
Other comments:
First News Day:
JRN 300 Newsday 1 Assignment – election day
Second News Day
JRN 300 News Day #2 Grading Matrix
Third News Day
Montmartre feature stories (first draft and final draft)
JRN 300 Grading Matrix for First Draft of Feature Stories from Montmartre
JRN 300 Final Montmartre Feature Grading Matrix
JRN 300 Final Feature
Grading Matrix
Student Name:
| Approach to the story | Really creative – You told the story in a unique, even surprising, way that was appropriate to the content and tone of the story |
/3 |
| Interesting – You didn’t just present the story; you told it in a way that was different and creative, while it was still appropriate to the content and tone | ||
| Predictable – You told the story in a way that was typical and … predictable; think of how you could be more creative | ||
| CP Style | Perfect – No mistakes |
/3 |
| Excellent – Under 6 mistakes | ||
| Good – 6-10 mistakes | ||
| Over 10 mistakes – 0 | ||
| Lede to nutgraph | Awesome – This most important part of your story grabs your readers and makes them absolutely have to read your story to the end |
/3 |
| Excellent – This most important part of your story intrigues your reader and pulls them into the story; for sure, they are going to read the rest | ||
| Good – The most important part of your story gets readers pretty darn interested; they will definitely read on t…unless there’s something good on TV | ||
| Characters | Fabulous – The perfect people to tell the story through; I know what they look like; I know how they think: I know what they are passionate about; I really care about them; I may want to marry them |
/3 |
| Excellent – A very good choice for telling this story; they are interesting and compelling; I have a good picture of them and a good understanding of who they are as people; I care about them quite a bit | ||
| Nice – You main character is nice; they are a bit ordinary but they are nice; I have an idea of what they are like as people but not enough to make me really care what happens to them. | ||
| Storytelling | Fantastic – Great storytelling; your story has a beginning, middle and end; there is a strong story arch including tension and resolution; the story sweeps the reader off their feet and carries them along to the resolution | |
| Excellent – Your story has tension and resolution that are well developed and carry the reader along | ||
| Pretty good – there’s definitely a story in there; there’s a beginning, middle, end; but the tension isn’t very well developed so the resolution is not very satisfying |
| Description | Awesome – You painted a picture of the key elements, places, people in the story; description is totally relevant and makes the environment almost like a character in the story |
/3 |
| Really good – Reader knows what the people and places in your story look like and feel like; the description contributes to the story | ||
| Okay – There is some description but it doesn’t seem very relevant to the story; it doesn’t advance the story; seems like it was added on just to have description | ||
| Quotes | Awesome – Funny, poignant, moving, riveting; they totally make your story come alive with voices that reveal the innermost thoughts, dreams, fears of the people in the story, |
/3 |
| Excellent – Colourful; the quotes add voices of people the reader cares about; the reader comes to know the thoughts and feelings of the characters and learn how they are impacted by the story and how it is significant for them. | ||
| Good – your quotes give voice to the characters in your story but what they say is kind of predicable and doesn’t add very much to the story | ||
| Research | Amazine – Everything I need to know to understand the context and significance of the story are included; I learned new and interesting stuff about the world; there are lots of juicy little nuggets of research in your story that appear at just the right time to light up a paragraph |
/3 |
| Really good – All my questions are answered; I understanding the context and details of the story; I learned cool things reading your story | ||
| Okay – There are some unanswered questions; your story needs more juicy bits to liven it up and fill in the gaps in the readers’ knowledge; you may have forgotten that the reader isn’t an expert on the story the way you are | ||
| Transitions and Ending | Smooth and satisfying – the paragraphs flow together seamlessly and the ending summarizes and pulls together the whole story nicely, possibly by replaying the lede idea |
/3 |
| Pretty good – some transitions are a bit choppy but generally the story flows; the ending pulls the story together | ||
| Pretty choppy in some parts and the ending leave the reader kind of hanging there wondering why they read the whole story | ||
| Publishable? | Absolutely |
/3 |
| One more draft required | ||
| More research and another draft required | ||
| TOTAL | /30 |