teaching with writing

business grading

Effective writing in business and management must convey factual information efficiently and cohesively. It must also lead to insightful and frequently profitable solutions! The successful business writer will address specific audiences and will attend to appropriate format and design issues so that a finished document can be closely read or efficiently skimmed. Evaluation criteria should include attention to students' address of assignment, use of persuasive insight, consistent address of target audiences, ability to create effective summaries, headings, subheadings, bullets, short paragraphs, etc.

sample grading rubrics

management

• Operations Management, Synthesis Paper Grading Rubric: a grading rubric for a synthesis paper requiring students to conduct a focused analysis of the process used for changing inputs (materials, labor, cultures, etc.) into goods and services.
  
  
• Advanced Business Models: four grading rubrics corresponding to all four of the assignments for this course: 
  
  
  • Industry Outline: a summary and analysis assignment used as a building block toward the final project, an 8-page formal paper. 
    
    
  • Industry Issues: an analysis assignment focused on making predictions about industry growth. 
    
    
  • Presentations: a group activity requiring students to explore the weakest company researched. 
    
    
  • Final Paper: an 8-page industry analysis built, in part, by the previous assignments. 
    

more grading support

• Grammar in Business: a short article about evaluating students' business writing. This article is a part of the Center for Writing's Fall 2001 Write @ U newsletter.

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