Field Report Grading
| A (90-100) | B (80-89) | C-F (0-79) | |
| Breadth | Covers the seven elements listed in the field report guide, with clear and comprehensive descriptions and illustrative examples. | Covers the seven elements listed in the field report guide. | Covers most of the seven elements listed in the field report guide. |
| Depth | Ideas and evaluations are well-developed and fairly sophisticated. | Ideas and evaluations are reasonably developed. | Ideas and evaluations are partially developed. |
| Clarity | Ideas and descriptions are clear and comprehensible, requiring no interpretation on the part of the reader. | Ideas and descriptions are developed and generally clear and comprehensible, requiring minimal interpretation on the part of the reader. | Ideas and descriptions are comprehensible but partially developed and somewhat confused, requiring interpretation on the part of the reader. |
| Style | Style is formal and appropriate for a technical report, content is well organized, and grammar and spelling are correct. | Style is generally appropriate for a technical report, content is well organized, and grammar and spelling are generally correct. | Style is organized as a technical report, but contains some informal writing and some common grammatical and spelling errors. |