- Not formal
- Informative
- Lengthy words
- Witty voice
- Transitions
- Citations
- Statistics
- Opinionated as well as factual
- Quotes from famous people/sources
- Interviews and a lot of quotes from interviewees
- Stories sometimes good vs. bad
- Directed toward certain audiences
- No indention for the start of a new paragraph
- Visually : Sometimes a picture of the author or picture related to topic
- Location of articles
The topic just kind of hit me when you talked about being relevant to college students. I'm pretty sure I was already thinking about what I'm going to be doing this spring break. After I chose my topic, in class we had time to look up sources. I was just randomly reading things and interesting articles about spring break that sort of shaped how I wanted to write my article. I mostly used google but tried to find more reliable sources after you had told me the ones I had probably weren't the best. I then moved over to article sources like USA Today and other news websites. During the peer review, I asked my fellow classmates to let me know what they would find interesting about an article about spring break. I mentioned to them that the topic itself was a little vague, and that I had thought of three different sub topics that could be generated from it. They gave me their opinions about which one they thought would be the most interesting, which I found to be very helpful. Currently, my thought process for the article is to set up several different interviews with some kids I went to high school with who are now attending different colleges. I plan to ask them various questions about this upcoming spring break as well as past ones and their opinions on some of the statistics that I have gathered so far.
Put these in two separate posts next time. You have a good start to your rubric, but it may help to first group your bullet points according to a larger grouping (language/content/overall look/style/etc.). You also want to be more specific as to what you mean by what you've put. So there are citations, but how are citations used within these articles? How are things cited. And what exactly does "not formal" mean? Formality is pretty context-specific, so what word choices, structure, and so on gave you the idea that these are articles are "not formal"?
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