New in the resource library: The Soft Word Sweep.

A free working session for the rubric attached to your first real assignment. Four phases, Seed to Harvest, done entirely by hand.

Seed. Name the course and the assignment.
Sprout. Mark the words in your criteria that do no work and all of the arguing. Strong. Effective. Thorough. Clear. Appropriate. Sophisticated. Adequate. Insightful.
Grow. Rewrite three of them into something a student could put a finger on. Only three. Three is finishable tonight.
Harvest. Write the sentence you will say out loud in class when you hand it out.

You finish holding three criterion lines you can defend and one sentence students will actually remember. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no signup.

https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-soft-word-sweep/

Open the rubric for your first assignment. What is the softest word in it?