3.17: Rubric: Setting Story

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Rubric: Setting Story

	Score	Comments
Descriptive Details Detailed, vivid descriptions using the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell. Details are shown not told. Setting is pivotal to the story. Character is known through physical descriptions, dialogue, and/or interaction with others. Length is two pages, no more than three.	15/15
Organization Story is told in multiple paragraphs. Paragraph breaks occur when the scene shifts. Each time a different character speaks a new paragraph is created. The story arcs like Freytag’s plot chart.	15/15
Point of View Written in first-person point of view. Uses the pronouns I, me, my, myself, we, us, our, ourselves. Doesn’t use second-person pronouns: you, your, yourself except in dialogue.	15/15
Word Choice Uses specific nouns. Uses action verbs. Does not use words like really, always, very, a lot.	10/10
Sentence Structures No fragments. No run-on sentences. No awkwardly constructed sentences. Well-crafted sentences.	15/15
Usability/Storytelling/Tone Effective with little or no additional revisions.	10/10
Mechanics Grammar, especially correct verb tense. Capitalization of proper nouns Punctuation, especially commas and periods Spelling	10/10
Format Name heading Title Double-spaced 1″ margins 12 pt. easy-to-read font Page number heading Paragraphs indented 5 to 7 spaces–one tab	10/10

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Rubric: Setting Story. Authored by: Linda Frances Lein, M.F.A. License: CC BY: Attribution