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Current Event Article Rubric Current Event Presentation and Report Rubric Criteria for completing current event article writeups Rubric Code: Y242887 By Shannonsp8 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Journalism Type: Writing Grade Levels: 9-12

Current Event Criteria
	Incomplete 0 pts	Poor 1 pts	Fair 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
Relevance of Subject Matter Relevance and currency of the topic	Incomplete No political, economic, governmental, or public interest tie(s) and/or an extremely outdated topic found in the article.	Poor Little political, economic, governmental, or public interest tie(s) and/or an older topic found in the article.	Fair Moderately identifiable political, economic, governmental, or public interest tie(s) with somewhat recent topics found in the article.	Good Exceptional political, economic, governmental, or public interest tie(s) with current topics found in the article	Excellent Outstanding political, economic, governmental, or public interest tie(s) with current topics found in the article
Summary of Facts Organization of facts that reflects the inverted pyramid structure	Incomplete No summary of facts given.	Poor Very little summary of facts given.	Fair Some summary of facts given but is mostly read verbatim from article and report.	Good Summary of facts given with references to the article and report.	Excellent Detailed summary of facts found in the article is clearly outlined in an organized manner.
Neutral Tone Article shows clear understanding of the information with no bias through tone, word choice, or selection/omission of information.	Incomplete Plagarism. Copied verbatim from the article without reference.	Poor Very basic summary (no more than 1-2 sentences)	Fair Moderate summarization of facts (1 paragraph) but includes personal bias.	Good Exceptional summarization of facts (1 paragraph) without personal bias.	Excellent Outstanding summarization of facts displayed at the beginning of the article without personal bias.
Structure and language The format follows the guidelines regarding sentence and paragraph structure, and clearly communicates a news article as opposed to a research paper or novel.	Incomplete No attempt to portray any sense of professionalism or authority on the topic. Little thought was put into the structure or word choice.	Poor Poor word choice and structure; does not display a sense of professionalism and/or authority	Fair Acceptable word choice and structure, providing some sense of professionalism but lacks authority	Good Exceptional word choice and structure which demonstrates a sense of professionalism and authority	Excellent Outstanding word choice and structure which demonstrates a clear sense of professionalism and authority

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