research article rubric

Amy posted a question in the virtual office about guidelines for writing up a 700-1,000 word blog post about a research article. I have no such guidelines, but the rubric I used for the Cognitive Psychology course would generally apply to this challenge.

Below you can download the Cognition 2008 paper rubric, plus an extra PDF titled Using the Cog Rubric. The "Using" document highlights which portions of this other rubric applies to your current challenge, and which parts are not relevant. And, of course, specific point allocations don't apply at all.

There's nothing magical or unique about these guidelines for general research writing. Typically, when reporting in more depth about a study you'd always want to include:

1. Why the study was chosen (by you)
2. The Problem
3. Methods
4. ResultsDiscussion
5. Critique (strengths and weaknesses)

Rather than being a formal rubric, you can consider this Cognition document as providing useful guidelines for how to structure your blog post.

Cognition Paper Rubric download