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Rubrics for Online Research Assignment

Categories for evaluating assignment	===Performance level===
Categories for evaluating assignment	Strong	Adequate	Inadequate: Needs work
Quality of articles	Peer review of highest quality or passed some professional vetting process such as conference proceedings or working paper series.	Peer reviewed but from minor or vanity publications	No information about review process or simply a posting to a website.
Quality of websites	Up to date; Has well-organized links to useful sites or databases. Site information is clear and useful. Information on organization or individual who runs site is transparent.	Somewhat dated; Links are not well-organized or seem randomly chosen. Information on site is adequate but not abundant.	Out of date; links are hard to get to or broken. Little information of value on site. No information on organization or individual who runs site.
Synthesis of research materials	Text does a good job of integrating the content of articles and websites into a coherent narrative that shows clear connection to author’s topic.	Text links articles and websites but fails to show how they relate to author’s topic.	Simply presents the articles and websites without explanation of how they are related to each or the author’s topic. No discussion of the content of the material.
Evidence of importance of author's topic within the discipline or community of practice	Author uses research materials to convincingly argue the importance of his or her topic.	Author uses research materials to show that topic is linked to a community of practice but doesn’t explain its importance.	Author fails to draw the connection between the research materials, the topic and how the topic is related to the concerns of a specific discipline or community of practice.
Organization of the assignment	No spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes. Follows citation guidelines. Text has clear narrative and argument is easy to follow.	No spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes. Follows citation guidelines. Reader needs to work at figuring out the argument because text is disorganized.	There are spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes. Does not follow citation guidelines. There is no discernible argument. Text is poorly organized.