Chin 200 Final writing assignment                            Due Dec 13^th, 2010

 Our class is hired by a Chinese touring company to write about interesting places to visit in the U.S. for their monthly newsletter. We will divide the class into several groups with 4-5 people. Each group will be responsible for one city/town/state of their choices. The final product will be submitted in the format of a poster (electronically or in paper). The following are what you need to address for each place of interest：

· The basics-where is it, what is it called, climate, population, cultural, political significance, etc

· What to do: give information on historical sites, museums, shopping districts, places for recreations and any other places worth visiting. Be sure to mention directions and other travel tips. Please write about at least four different places;

· Where to eat: highlight one or two restaurants for the local food. Comment on the restaurants’ food, services, ambience, location, price and other specialties.

· Other: any other things that you think are special about this place.

Your poster will be evaluated based on the content, organization, presentation as well as grammatical accuracy. The following rubric is attached for your reference:

Evaluation Domain	Approaches the standard	Meet the standard	Exceeds the standard	Score 50pts
content	Some components/information  are missing	Covers all the above required components/information	Covers all the above required components/information	--------/8pts
	Provide inadequate details for each component within the realm of current study	Provide sufficient details for each component within the realm of current study	Provide extensive details for each component within the realm of current study	_____/8pts
function	Inefficient with the purpose of the task; the place described is not attractive or interesting	Accomplish the goals of the writing task adequately; the place described is interesting	Accomplish the goals of the task and more; the place described in very interesting/attractive;	--------/8pts
Language skills	Frequent grammar errors;	Good control of grammar structures. Errors are limited and don’t hinder overall effectiveness of  communication	Excellent control of grammar structure; Little or no mistakes	--------/8pts
	insufficient or incorrect use of vocabularies; incorrect character writing	Use vocabularies at  appropriate levels correctly most of the time	Use correct vocabularies at appropriate levels all the time; little or no mistake	-----------/8pts
presentation	Little or no visual aids, materials are not organized and / or presented clearly; the poster is not attractive	adquate use of visual/audio aids, materials are organized and clearly presented	Very Effective use of visual/audio aids, materials are organized in a clear and attrictive way	-------/10pts