Assignment 1: Select 5 peer-reviewed articles from scholarly sources that integrate writing strategies across the curriculum and compile an Annotated Bibliography. Information from each source should

NARRATIVE

Description

4 Skilled

3 Proficient

2 Developing

1 Inadequate

Exposition:

The text sets up a story by introducing the event/conflict, characters, and setting.

The text engages and orients the reader by setting out a conflict, situation, or observation and its significance. It establishes one or multiple points of view and introduces a narrator and/or well-developed characters.

The text orients the reader by setting out a conflict, situation, or observation and its significance. It establishes one point of view and introduces a narrator and/or well-developed characters.

The text provides a setting with a vague conflict, situation, or observation with an unclear point of view. It introduces a narrator and/or underdeveloped characters.

The text provides a setting with a vague conflict, situation, or observation. It has an unclear point of view and underdeveloped narrator and/or characters.

Narrative Techniques and Development:

The story is developed using dialogue, pacing, description, reflection and multiple plot lines.

The text demonstrates deliberate use of narrative techniques – such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines – to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

The text uses narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, reflection, to showing events, and/or experiences.

The text uses some narrative techniques, such as dialogue or description and merely retells events and/or experiences.

The text lacks narrative techniques and merely retells events and/or experiences.

Organization and Cohesion:

The text follows a logical sequence of events.

The text creates a smooth progression of experiences or events using a variety of techniques – such as chronology, flashback, foreshadowing, suspense, etc.- to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole. These techniques build toward a clear tone and outcome.

The text creates a logical progression of experiences or events using a variety of techniques – such as chronology, flashback, foreshadowing, suspense, etc.- to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole. These techniques build toward a clear tone and outcome.

The text creates a sequence or progression of experience or events. The text lacks an identifiable tone and/or outcome.

The text lacks a sequence or progression of experiences or events or presents an illogical sequence of events. The text lacks an identifiable tone and/or outcome.

Style and Conventions:

The text uses sensory language and details to create a vivid picture of events, setting, and characters.

The text uses precise words and phrases, showing details and controlled sensory language and mood to convey a realistic picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.

The text uses words and phrases, telling details and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.

The text uses words and phrases, telling details to convey experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.

The text merely tells experiences, events, settings, and/or characters.

Conclusion:

Conclusion that follows from the course of the narrative. The conclusion provides a reflection on or resolution of the events.

The text builds to a conclusion that logically flows from and reflects on what is experiences, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.

The text provides a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.

The text provides a conclusion that follows from what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.

The text may provide a conclusion to the events of the narrative.