Rubrics for an online magazine

    So, I decided to take up Erin's suggestion for the blog post, and am critiquing Love Archaeology magazine with my group's rubric. I picked love archaeology because we came across it while looking at archaeology magazines for idea, and Erin said she loved that magazine so I figured it would be a good choice for evaluation. The first thing I noticed when perusing a couple issues of the magazine (specifically issues 1 and 2), is that our rubric criteria is far too specific. We included number of sites, quality of sources and ideas/research questions as 3/5 of our rubric marking scheme. I didn't realize until after Erin handed back our rubric, that we hadn't included some pretty important categories. By browsing Love Archaeology, I noticed that we were missing some pretty important things in our rubric.   Had I graded Love Archaeology with our initial rubric, it would have scored pretty low because our criteria doesn't work with every academic magazine. The magazine definitely has originality, subject knowledge and an aesthetically pleasing overall format. Out of those three aforementioned qualities, our rubric only had the last one as part of it. Lesson learnt? Rubrics are more tricky to make than one would think. I now have more sympathy for professors deciding how to grade assignments.