Points: Demonstrates thorough knowledge and understanding of the disease and its transmission. Points: Demonstrates ability to accurately and thoroughly describe signs and symptoms relevant to select disease. Also provides details pertaining to course of illness, illustrating mastery of the subject. Points: Provides a detailed discussion of all relevant and appropriate levels of disease prevention and intervention, including techniques Points: Discusses environmental attributes illustrating exemplary understanding of seasonal, geographical, and cyclical trends. Points: Provides an exemplary discussion of current morbidity and mortality trends; includes a detailed analysis of disease distribution differences addressing epidemics, endemics, and pandemics. Points: Summary of overall findings provides a clear and detailed picture of the disease and does an exceptional job at pulling the information together. Points: Paper is well organized, including appropriate formatting structure. Students use correctly all of the following information use strategies (use of proper APA citations and references; choice of paraphrasing, summary, or quoting; using information in ways that are true to original context; distinguishing between common knowledge and ideas requiring attribution) and demonstrate a full understanding of the ethical and legal restrictions on the use of published, confidential, and/or proprietary information. Points: Demonstrates detailed attention to and successful execution of a wide range of conventions particular to a specific discipline and/or writing task(s) including organization, content, presentation, formatting, grammar, and stylistic choices.
