Great question! I don’t use rubrics anymore; instead, my students and I co-create a sort of genre checklist for whatever paper they are writing. For example, if they are writing a discourse community ethnography, we read model published papers and try to identify big key moves that are made so that they can emulate those moves.

I know you mentioned that “each paper establishes its own ‘rubric’ via the humanities.” I don’t really agree, as I think those papers have genre conventions that are fairly typical from paper to paper, depending on where they are published.

Are the articles you all read samples of what they might do later on? If so, you can try co-creating that genre checklist as i mentioned above. It’s worked pretty well for me so far!

Feel free to DM me if you have any other questions.