Journalism Writing Rubrics Amstutz Restaurant Review Rubric

Restaurant Review Rubric

Objectives Accomplished Skilled Developing Needs Improvement 4 Points Comments 9 - 10 points 7 – 8 points 5-6 points points or less Earned Effective & Lead is original and Lead is appropriate to Lead is adequate but not Lead is neither original nor Appropriate gets the reader’s restaurant and fairly extremely catchy or catchy; is boring, overused Lead attention; appropriate effective at getting original; evaluation of the or trite, or is inappropriate to the restaurant being attention; shows some reviewer is unclear to restaurant; reviewer’s reviewed; evaluation of signs of originality; evaluation is unclear the reviewer is clear evaluation may not be from the first as clear paragraph Intro to Reviewer gives a brief Intro is either a little Intro is either much too Little or no significant restaurant and introduction to too long or not long short or much too long; intro; no details about the atmosphere restaurant, with enough; not quite as may be vague atmosphere or the visit description of compelling; contains atmosphere and type; fewer details about the perhaps mentions the restaurant and the visit restaurant’s reputation to support reviewer’s and gives details of the opinion reviewer’s visit(s) Evaluation of Contains sufficient and Contains some Contains insufficient Contains no significant food and knowledgeable evaluation of many evaluation of many evaluation of many aspects service evaluation of many aspects of restaurant aspects of restaurant to of restaurant to support aspects of restaurant to to support reviewer’s support reviewer’s reviewer’s opinion support reviewer’s opinion, including opinion, including opinion, including detailed description of detailed description of detailed description of several dishes, taste, several dishes, taste, several dishes, taste, texture, presentation, texture, presentation, texture, presentation, service, and cost service, and cost service, and cost Effective Review is strongly Review is organized Review lacks strong Review is choppy; Organization organized with clear and most transitions organization, jumps organization is unclear; and Flow (deals transitions and logical and connections are around too much or lacks few effective transitions; with structure) connections that create clear, but either effective transitions; not does not offer a clear a sense of being tightly organization is in logical order; may not evaluation woven together; review somewhat lacking or offer a clear evaluation offers a clear the sense of flow is evaluation of restaurant somewhat abrupt; review gives clear evaluation Clear Focus Focus of review is Focus is fairly clear Story lacks strong sense No clear angle; story is and Unity clear; nothing detracts but on or two areas of unity and focus; several rambling and awkward (deals with from primary focus; detract from the areas seem to detract from content) everything contributes primary angle angle to overall angle Interesting & Writing is strong and Writing is adequate Writing is rather bland; Writing lacks a clear voice Effective effective with a clear but not extremely lacks a clear voice and/or and original style Writing Style voice and a variety of compelling or sense of originality; is sentence structures; original; may be wordy or redundant; or piece is tightly written; wordy or voice may diction &/or sentence utilizes active verbs be unclear; diction structure may be repetitive and vivid word choice; may not be as vivid; original writing s/s may not be as varied Journalistic NO errors in Has few (one or two) Has several errors in Has many errors in Style journalistic style errors in journalistic journalistic style or non- journalistic style and/or (quotes, dates, scores, style; or may have journalistic paragraph non-journalistic paragraph numbers, money, non-journalistic structure structure percents, time, paragraph structure commas, etc.); short paragraphs Grammar and Story is well edited and Story is spell checked Story is spell checked and Names are misspelled; or Spelling virtually flawless; NO and all names are all names are correct; spell check was not run; or spelling errors; correct; contains few contains several contains many includes the proper grammatical errors grammatical errors grammatical errors spelling of all names Format No tabs at the Missed one criteria Missed two criteria Missed three (Hit return at the beginning of graphs; end of the 10 pt, double spc preceding w/name as byline. paragraph)

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