Each student may be allowed to have his or her work responded to on the basis of an individualized guidelines or all students in the class may be required to collaborate to create a common rubric for each assignment. In either case, allowing students to participate in the composition of the criteria by which they will be judged increases both their critical awareness and their sense of ownership of the class and its assigned writing. Included below is a sample of rubrics suggesting some of the possible categories and formats that writing rubrics may take. From Jon Goss, Geography. For more information about this class, see Writing and Thinking Critically about the City.
Revision involves a careful rethinking of purpose and a reconsideration of audience.
From Wayne Iwaoka, Food Science. For more information about this class, see Journal Writing in Food Science. Editing is the process of fine-tuning one's writing. A carefully edited paper will make that clear. In editing, a writer pays attention to sentence-level matters of word choice, tone, economy, and precision.