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3.22: Rubric: Dialogue Story

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    Rubric: Dialogue Story

    Score Comments
    Descriptive Details
    • Detailed, vivid descriptions using the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
    • Details are shown not told
    • Dialogue moves the plot, increasing suspense, showing readers a trait(s) of the character(s), and/or changing the situation or conflict the characters are in
    • Setting is the backdrop of the story.
    • Characters are known through physical description, 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 Structure
    • No fragments.
    • No run-on sentences.
    • No awkwardly constructed statements.
    • Well-crafted sentences.
     15/15
     Usability/Storytelling/Ton
    • 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: Dialogue Story. Authored by: Linda Frances Lein, M.F.A. License: CC BY: Attribution

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