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Homeland Security Capstone Class (Personal Leadership History Report)

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The Leadership Development Project Process

The project is a course-length process managed using specified development steps that correlate with specific course materials. Aspects of this process will be addressed in the course conferences each week. The first of the two project deliverables is the personal leadership history report.

Personal Leadership History Report

Discuss leadership experiences, what you learned from them, factors that influenced how you led, and how you look back on that leadership experience. This does not have to cover your entire leadership experience, but should cover enough to write the Personal Leadership Portfolio assignment. Be sure to read the requirements for that assignment before you complete the Personal Leadership History Report. Be careful not to focus on a leadership style in general, but discuss specific personal leadership experiences, both positive and negative, successes and failures. Be sure that your conclusion focuses on summing up your points on leadership discussed in the essay, not just a style. This is an essay on leadership, not management; sometimes the distinction is a fine line.

The personal leadership history report will review your leadership experiences and describes your leadership style during those experiences. The body of the personal leadership history report shall be 4-6 pages, excluding other material such as the cover page, table of contents, abstract, graphics and tables, and references. The paper shall be presented in APA (6th edition) format, all margins should be 1”, 12 point font, and be in either Arial or New Times Roman font style. In the following descending order of preference, information sources must be either peer-reviewed articles, government reports, or other sources approved by your instructor. Internet information sources from other than authoritative sources are discouraged. See the Research Paper grading rubric for more information.

The Personal Leadership History Report is worth 10% of your final grade.

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Rubric Name: Personal Leadership History Report Rubric(Homeland Security Capstone Class)

Criteria	LEVEL 4	LEVEL 3	LEVEL 2	LEVEL 1

GRAMMAR & APA FORMAT	20 POINTS Can earn between 18-20 points. Essentially free of grammatical errors; The writing is free or almost free of errors. APA format is used accurately and consistently in the paper and on the “References” page. The references in the list match the in-text citations and all were properly encoded in APA format.	17 POINTS Can earn between 16-17 points. A few grammatical errors; There are occasional errors, but they don’t represent a major distraction or obscure meaning. APA is used with minor errors. Some formatting problems exist, or some components are missing. No more than one or two citation errors.	15 POINTS Can earn between 14-15 points. Several grammatical errors; The writing has many errors, and the reader is distracted by them. There are several errors in APA format. Listings in the References or Works Cited list were not cited in the text.	13 POINTS Can earn between 0-13 points. Pattern of ungrammatical writing; There are so many errors that meaning is obscured. The reader is confused and stops reading. Format of the document is not recognizable as APA format; Listings in the References or Works Cited list were not cited in the text. Pattern of citation errors.
DISCUSSION AND INSIGHT OF PERSONAL LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE	70 POINTS Can earn from 63-70 points. Discussion consisted of specific personal leadership experiences, both positive and negative, successes and failures. Report focused on leadership rather than management. Personal leadership discussed is extensive enough to allow student to complete the Personal Leadership Portfolio assignment.	62 POINTS Can earn from 56-62 points. Discussion consisted mostly of specific personal leadership experiences, although some of the discussion consisted of theory or styles instead. Report mostly focused on leadership rather than management. Personal leadership discussed is extensive enough to allow student to complete the Personal Leadership Portfolio assignment.	55 POINTS Can earn from 49-55points. Discussion consisted of some specific personal leadership experiences. It included too many theories and styles rather than specific personal leadership experiences. Report mostly focused on management rather than leadership. Personal leadership discussed may not be enough to allow student to complete the Personal Leadership Portfolio assignment.	48 POINTS Can earn from 0-48 points. Discussion consisted of few specific personal leadership experiences. It included too many theories and styles rather than specific personal leadership experiences. Report focused on management with little leadership included. Personal leadership discussed will not be enough to allow student to complete the Personal Leadership Portfolio assignment.
CONCLUSION	10 POINTS Can earn between 9-10 points. The writer makes succinct and precise conclusions. The conclusion focuses on summing up the points on leadership discussed in the essay.	8 POINTS The conclusions are mostly succinct and precise. The conclusion mostly focused on summing up the points on leadership discussed in the essay.	7 POINTS The conclusions are somewhat succinct and precise. Some of the conclusion focused on summing up the points on leadership discussed in the essay.	6 POINTS Can earn between 0-6 points. There is little or no indication that the writer tried to synthesize the information or to draw conclusions. The conclusion did not focus on summing up the points on leadership discussed in the essay.
Overall Score	A GRADE 90 OR MORE	B GRADE 80 OR MORE	C GRADE 70 OR MORE	D OR F GRADE 0 OR MORE

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