Annotated Outline Scoring Guide
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Due Date: End of Unit 6.
Percentage of Course Grade: 10%.
Grading rubric
Criteria
Non-performance
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
Outline a comprehensive community health assessment and action plan.
Does not outline a comprehensive community health assessment and action plan.
Partially outlines a comprehensive community health assessment and action plan.
Outlines a comprehensive community health assessment and action plan.
Outlines an exemplary community health assessment and action plan.
Identify comprehensive scholarly support for the community health assessment and action plan.
Does not identify scholarly support for the community health assessment and action plan.
Partially identifies scholarly support for the community health assessment and action plan.
Identifies comprehensive scholarly support for the community health assessment and action plan.
Identifies exemplary scholarly support for the community health assessment and action plan.
Identify current research that explores the impact of internal and external factors that may impact health and wellness status.
Does not identify current research that explores the impact of internal and external factors that may impact health and wellness status.
Partially identifies current research that explores the impact of internal and external factors that may impact health and wellness status.
Identifies current research that explores the impact of internal and external factors that may impact health and wellness status.
Identifies exemplary research that explores the impact of internal and external factors that may impact health and wellness status.
Differentiate current research that identifies effective communication patterns or techniques that impact health and wellness for the chosen community/state.
Does not differentiate current research that identifies effective communication patterns or techniques that impact health and wellness for your chosen community/state.
Partially differentiates current research that identifies effective communication patterns or techniques that impact health and wellness for your chosen community/state.
Differentiates current research that identifies effective communication patterns or techniques that impact health and wellness for your chosen community/state.
Differentiates current research that identifies exemplary communication patterns or techniques that impact health and wellness for your chosen community/state.
Demonstrate effective academic writing and communication including effective research techniques and correct APA style and formatting.
Does not demonstrate effective academic writing and communication including effective research techniques and correct APA style and formatting.
Occasionally demonstrates effective academic writing and communication including effective research techniques and correct APA style and formatting.
Demonstrates effective academic writing and communication including effective research techniques and correct APA style and formatting.
Demonstrates exemplary academic writing and communication including effective research techniques and correct APA style and formatting.•Write an outline of your course project. As you organize your outline, keep in mind that your final course project will comprise parts of each of your assignments from Units 3, 6, and 9. Review the requirements for your final assignment due in Unit 10 to ensure that you have included all the minimum required heading sections. Broadly, these will include:
?Introduction.
?Community/State Demographics.
?State of Health for Your Community/State.
?Communication Strategies.
?Proposed Community Health Assessment Improvement Solutions.
?Conclusion.
?References.
Add additional headings and subheadings as needed.
•Annotate your outline with the references you intend to use to support each section. (See Developing an Annotated Outline given in the Resources section).
?Provide a 1–5 sentence annotated review of each reference and organize them under the most appropriate heading in your outline. (See the Annotated Bibliography and Annotated Outline from the Capella Online Writing Center given in the Resources section).
?Include a minimum of 15 references, with a minimum of 10 from peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly sources that will assist you in developing and implementing your proposed project.
?As you research possible resources and references for your community health assessment project, consider those that pertain to internal and external factors, complementary, alternative, and non-Western medical practices, and communication strategies and methods that may impact health and wellness for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
•Conclude your paper with reference section in APA format for each reference in your literature review. This will be the beginning of the reference section you will use for your assignment Community Health Assessment due in Unit 10.
•Use correct APA style and format including an APA-formatted cover page with your name and assignment title on it, page numbers, running header, double-spaced text, citations headings, and a reference section. See the APA style and formatting guidelines in Capella Online Writing Center for reference (link given in the Resources section).Example of annotated Ourlineadding complete sentences, with each
sentence usable as a topic sentence for a paragraph in a project or paper.
I. Transforming chaos into order
Arling, T.J., (2006). Understanding order and chaos. New York: Wylie and
Sons.
The contrast between ordered and unordered systems – order and chaos –
has affected scientific thought over the past 200 years.This is the APA rule for newsgroups and online forums. Remember that you would write newsgroup in the brackets.
?70. Message posted to a newsgroup, online forum, or discussion group:
Rampersad, T. (2005, June 8). Re: Traditional knowledge and traditional cultural
expressions [Online forum comment]. Retrieved from World International
Property Organization website: http://www.wipo.int/roller/comments/ipisforum
/weblog/theme_eight_how_can_cultural#comments
Capella Writing Feedback Tool
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The Writing Feedback Tool (WFT) is not a grading rubric. Rather, it is a guide to Capella writing resources that your instructor may recommend. Your instructor may or may not use this tool to provide feedback on your writing assignment; however, you are always encouraged to view the WFT and to use the writing resources as needed.
Criteria
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Satisfactory
Exceptional
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Instructor Comments
1. Critical Reading
•Follows the assignment.
•Selects and interprets sources appropriately.
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Overview. Full-text PDF, pages 11–16: Critical Reading of Primary and Secondary Sources.
Capella Library
Sources: What Can You Use for Your Research?
Presentation: Peer-reviewed Articles and How to Find Them.
or
Libguide: What Is Peer Review?
2. Abstract and Executive Summary
•Summarizes the main idea(s) of the paper.
•Evaluates scholarship related to those idea(s).
•Expresses writer’s unique perspective.
Capella Writing Center
Common Writing Assignments
The Writing Process: Overview. Full-text PDF, pages 7–11: Critical Thinking and Writing.
Business and Technical Writing.
Business and Technical Writing Presentation.
The Writing Center: Strategies for Writing from Secondary Sources.
The Writing Center: Developing a Scholarly Voice.
Capella Library
Evaluating Sources.
Library Research Handbook: What Did You Find? Evaluating.
3. Introduction
•Forecasts the scope and structure of the paper.
•States the purpose of main idea(s) of the paper.
•Demonstrates critical thinking by providing the writer’s unique perspective on the main idea(s).
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Drafting. Full-text PDF, page 22: Introductions.
The Writing Process: Drafting. Full-text PDF, page 20: Main Ideas.
Common Writing Assignments
Developing a Thesis Statement.
The Writing Process: Overview. Full-text PDF, pages 7–11: Critical Thinking and Writing.
4. Body: Organization
•Demonstrates critical thinking by organizing ideas in logical order to support the main idea(s) of the paper.
•Presents paragraphs with 1.Main idea (ex. topic sentence).
2.Evidence to support the main idea (ex. cited facts).
3.Analysis of evidence (ex. interpretation of what those facts mean in terms of the main idea(s)).
4.Link to next paragraph or section (ex. transitions).
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Overview. Full-text PDF, pages 7–11: Critical Thinking and Writing.
The Writing Process: Drafting. Full-text PDF, pages 20–27.
Grammar Handbook: Paragraph Structure. Full-text PDF, pages 25–34.
Creative Inquiry.
Common Writing Assignments
APA Style and Formatting module.
APA Style and Format: Headings and Subheadings.
MEAL Plan.
Reverse Outlining.
5. Body: Evidence
•Demonstrates critical thinking by integrating reputable outside sources with 1.Summaries.
2.Paraphrases.
3.Quotes.
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Overview. Full-text PDF, pages 7–11: Critical Thinking and Writing.
The Writing Process: Drafting. Full-text PDF, page 23: Using Sources.
Academic Honesty.
APA Style and Format. In-Text Citations.
Common Writing Assignments
The Writing Center: Strategies for Writing from Secondary Sources.
Using Paraphrases.
Writing Your Own Academic Conversation: Who Said What to Whom.
Plagiarism.
Academic Integrity.
Capella Library
Guides by School and Specification.
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article.
Presentation: Peer-reviewed Articles and How to Find Them.
or
Libguide: What Is Peer Review?
Library Research Handbook: What Did You Find? Evaluating.
6. Body: Analysis
•Demonstrates critical thinking by reflecting on, explaining, or refuting outside sources.
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Overview. Full-text PDF, pages 7–11: Critical Thinking and Writing.
The Writing Process: Revising. Full-text PDF, pages 27–34.
The Writing Center: Writing for an Academic Audience.
The Writing Center: Revising for Results.
What Is the Literature Review Mini-site.
7. Conclusion
•Reiterates the main idea(s) of purpose of the paper.
•Reiterates the writer’s unique perspective on the main idea(s).
•Demonstrates critical thinking by offering ideas for future research or inquiry.
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Drafting. Full-text PDF, page 26: Conclusions.
Common Writing Assignments
8. Documentation Style
•Follows specified documentation style.
•Uses headings and subheadings to create logical organization pattern.
•Incorporates internal citations correctly.
•Presents external citations correctly (ex. references in APA).
Capella Writing Center
APA Style and Format.
APA: Finding Answers.
What’s Behind APA Guidelines?
FAQs on Academic Writing.
Plagiarism.
Academic Integrity.
9. Voice (3rd Person)
•Uses appropriate tone for the assignment.
•Uses concrete language.
•Uses signal phrases to separate self from sources (ex. according to the author noted).
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Overview. Full-text PDF, pages 4–7: Scholarly Writing.
The Writing Process: Drafting. Full-text PDF, pages 25–26: Coherence and Transitions.
The Writing Process: Revising. Full-text PDF, pages 31–32: Voice.
The Writing Center: Developing a Scholarly Voice.
Writing in Third Person.
Writing Your Own Academic Conversation: Who Said What to Whom.
Voice, Style, and Tone.
Wordiness.
10. Grammar
•Uses active voice.
•Presents sentences with subject-verb agreement.
•Evidences proofreading through lack of errors in sentence structure and spelling.
Capella Writing Center
The Writing Process: Polishing. Full-text PDF, pages 35–43: How to Edit and How to Proofread.
Grammar Handbook: Sentence Structure. Full-text PDF, pages 4–35.
Grammar Handbook: Word Choice. Full-text PDF, pages 34–37.
Active and Passive Voice.
Style: Sentence Simplicity.
Purdue University: Sequence of Tenses.
11. Punctuation
•Uses standard American punctuation and the punctuation rules of the citation style.
Capella Writing Center
Grammar Handbook: Punctuation. Full-text PDF, pages 47–69.
Grammar Handbook: Mechanics. Full-text PDF, pages 69–73.
Basic Comma Rules.
Purdue University: Punctuation.
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