Here’s a possible rubric for marking your blog posts, once you’ve revised them. Feel free to use the comments to suggest changes to the rubric (hint: if you’d prefer a different way of marking them, here’s your chance to say so!)
- Choice of topic:
- Is it relevant to the course, and/or relevant to the challenges of climate change?
- How important is the topic (e.g is it trivia, or does it get to the heart of some of the dilemmas we face)?
- Is it timely (e.g. relates to current issues)?
- Is it interesting to a broad audience?
- It it likely to inspire, motivate, create discussion, etc?
- Use of resources:
- Are the cited resources relevant to the topic?
- Do they show some depth of research (e.g. not just a random google hit)?
- Are they used in an appropriate way to illustrate / support the article?
- Does the post link together things in an interesting new way?
- Style / Coherence
- Does the writing style suit the blog format?
- Is there a suitable introduction and a suitable ending?
- Do the ideas flow in a natural way? (or does it seem disjointed?)
- Understandability / Clarity
- Is the article readable by a wide audience?
- Does it strike a good balance between being overly technical versus dumbing the subject down too much?
- Is any specialist terminology explained?
- Are the ideas explained well?
- Insights / Originality
- Does the post add interesting new thoughts/ideas to the cited source material?
- Does the post approach the topic in a new way?
- If the post is a summary of source material, does it highlight the main points without being verbose?
- Is this the kind of blog post I would want to twitter to all my acquaintances?
- Good use of blogging features
- Are images, graphs, etc used to make the post more interesting?
- Are links to source material included in the right places?
- Is it clear to the reader whether they would want to follow the links?
- If other features are used, are they used appropriately (e.g. text formatting, layout, bullet points, etc)?
Thank you for posting this Sir! 😀
For the use of resources I mainly just linked a key word to take you to the website that it was concerned with, but should I do a brief of the article in my blog post and link the introduction?
@Sarah: I think the way you did it is fine. In each case, it was fairly clear what the link was (i.e. more information on a particular key term). It was also good to see your list of reference material at the end of your post, although it might be nice to add a sentence or two about each of them, as it was less clear to me which of these I might be interested in following up on.
Ok thank you