EDITOR EVALUATION SHEET Writer _____________________________________ Topic ______________________________ Date _____________________________________ Edited by __________________________ Rubric for ​
News 4 3 2 Lead is original and catchy; Lead is appropriate to story and Lead is adequate but not Effective & fits well with the rest of the fairly effective at getting attention; extremely catchy or original Appropriate Lead story; invites readers into shows some signs of originality the piece 1 Lead is neither original nor catchy; is boring, overused or trite, or is inappropriate to story Evidence of reporter trying to get as many sources as necessary to adequately Adequate Use of present all sides in the Primary Sources, story; all are identified; info Mainly Interviews is properly attributed; all info is accurate, thorough; uses best sources A minimum of three sources are Two or fewer sources are One or fewer sources used and clearly identified in story; used; some sources are used in story; or most information is attributed to improperly identified or some sources are improperly sources; information is accurate info or opinion is given without identified; much info is attribution; most info is given without attribution; accurate but may not be as inaccurate or vague info thorough; missing key sources; may use too general info Strong evidence of good research and interviewing Quotes Show by the use of effective, Evidence of story­ telling quotes that Careful Reporting cover a broad range of the topic Most quotes show evidence of effective interviewing and use of good follow­up questions; quotes are interesting and story­ telling One or two of the quotes show Quotes are short, weak evidence of good interviewing, or ineffective; no but most do not help propel the evidence of follow­up story questions being asked Story is in inverted pyramid Story is organized and most Story lacks strong organization, Story is choppy; form with info in descending transitions and connections are jumps around too much or organization is unclear; Effective order of importance; clear, but either organization is lacks effective transitions; not few effective transitions; Organization and strongly organized with somewhat lacking or the sense of in inverted pyramid not in inverted pyramid Flow (deals with clear transitions and logical flow is somewhat abrupt or story is structure) connections that create a not in inverted pyramid sense of being tightly woven together Clear Focus and Unity (deals with content) Focus of story is clear; Focus is fairly clear but one or two Story lacks strong sense of No clear angle; story is nothing detracts from areas detract from the primary unity and focus; several areas rambling and awkward primary focus; everything angle seem to detract from angle contributes to overall angle Interesting & Effective Writing Style Writing is strong and Writing is adequate but not Writing is rather bland; lacks a Writing lacks a clear effective with a clear voice extremely compelling or original; clear voice and/or sense of voice and original style and a variety of sentence may be wordy or voice may be originality; is wordy or structures; piece is tightly unclear; diction and s/s may not be redundant; or diction &/or written; utilizes active verbs as vivid or sophisticated sentence structure may be and vivid word choice; repetitive original writing Journalistic Style Grammar and Spelling 32/32 = 100
31/32 = 97
30/32 = 94
29/32 = 92
NO errors in journalistic style; short paragraphs Has few (one or two) errors in journalistic style; or may have non­journalistic paragraph structure Story is well edited and Story is spell checked and all virtually flawless; NO names are correct; contains few spelling errors; includes the grammatical errors proper spelling of all names 27/32 = 84
26/32 = 81 25/32 = 78 24/32 = 75 Has several errors in Has many errors in journalistic style or non­ journalistic style and/or journalistic paragraph structure non­journalistic paragraph structure Story is spell checked and all names are correct; contains several grammatical errors Names are misspelled; or spell check was not run; or contains many grammatical errors Comments/Suggestions (use back if needed): Editor: ​
after you have gone through the rubric and made suggestions, please return to the reporter so they can revise and edit. Make all necessary suggestions on the Google Doc using REVISIONS. Writer: ​
after you have edited/revised your work, return this to Mrs. K for final grading. Make sure the Google Doc is updated AND you print out a copy and staple to this sheet