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Effective
Formal Writing Assignments
Tips from faculty
seminar on Teaching and Responding to Student
Writing
An effective formal
writing assignment...
- Describes the purpose
of and the audience for the assignment.
- Establishes links
to significant learning goals.
- Gives the options
and constraints in selecting the topic (and possibly the options
and constraints in determining the purpose and/or the audience).
- Specifies characteristics
of the final written product-stylistic conventions, documentation
style, format, genre, etc.
- Describes the criteria
and standards on which the assignment will be evaluated.
- Makes available examples
of completed similar assignments.
- Describes phases
of assignment development and expectations for each phase
- How students
develop an understanding of the subject matter & topic
- When draft(s)
are due
- How students
get feedback and from what sources (individually from instructor,
from other students, group instruction through examples, etc.)
- When revising
and editing is due and what is to be focused on
- When and how
final product is due
©2001,
Bill Cerbin and Terry Beck
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