Rubric for academic blog writing in the digital humanities
The tone of a research blog is decidedly different from academic prose writing, but many other things are included. Below is a rubric used to assess digital humanities blog writing:
| Criterion | Exemplary | Well Done | Developing | Inadequate |
| Concision | Excellent balance of concision, interpretation and detail. Excellent use of visuals, cross-referencing. | Well balanced in concision and detail. Good use of visuals or cross-referenced with links. | Perhaps a bit too long or a too short. | Runs on for far too long, or conversely, does not demonstrate enough thinking and is too short. |
| Platform | Takes excellent advantage of the affordances of the platform. | Uses most of the affordance of the platform. | Some of the affordances of the platform are used, resembles more writing pasted into a website. | Basically writing pasted into a website. |
| Audience | Exemplary in the balance of public facing writing and translating the issues of the course to a general audience. | Very good in the balance of public facing writing and translating the issues of the course to a general audience. | Perhaps too informal or personal at the expense of the ability to communicate to an educated reader. | Either too technical or too informal. |
| Data | Includes downloadable links to all data used, well-structured and in appropriate formats. | Data provided, perhaps not complete, explained or well structured. | Data incomplete or poorly structured | Data not present. |
| Incorporation of Reading / Citation | Makes excellent use of 2-3 of the readings of the unit, or other web-based knowledge on the topic. Concisely integrated. | Good use of readings or other web-based knowledge on the topic. Basically integrated. | Has begun to learn about citation and links in web writing, but more improvement necessary. | Does not cite others, integrate the main ideas of the course, no links to web knowledge. |
| Process | Exemplary balance of explaining issues of process and interpretation of product. | Does a good job of describing process and product, but perhaps not integrated. | Focuses too much on the process or the product. | Either process or product is missing. |
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NYU Abu Dhabi. (2020). CDAD-UH 1033EQ: Data and Human Space course syllabus. Abu Dhabi, UAE: David Joseph Wrisley.
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NYU Abu Dhabi. (2020). Rubric for academic blog writing in the digital humanities. CDAD-UH 1033EQ: Data and Human Space course syllabus. Abu Dhabi, UAE: David Joseph Wrisley.