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Understanding Assignments

Understanding Assignments. Getting Started Module First Year Series Writing Center University of North Florida. Workshop Overview. The Purpose of an Assignment Sheet What to Expect from an Assignment Sheet Guided Practice: How to Read an Assignment Sheet Artifact-based Practice.

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Understanding Assignments

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  1. Understanding Assignments Getting Started Module First Year Series Writing Center University of North Florida

  2. Workshop Overview • The Purpose of an Assignment Sheet • What to Expect from an Assignment Sheet • Guided Practice: How to Read an Assignment Sheet • Artifact-based Practice

  3. The Purpose of an Assignment Sheet • Contract • Provide Guidance • States Purpose and Learning Outcomes

  4. What to Expect from an Assignment Sheet • Purpose of the assignment • Learning goals • Topic • Genre (summary, informative essay, argumentative essay, analysis, business proposal) • Task • Scope (page number or word count limitations, number of sources to use, type of sources to use) • Formatting guidelines (APA, MLA, CSE, Chicago, etc.) • Information regarding process (prewriting, peer review, revision, editing) if applicable • Due dates • Evaluation procedure • Resources available (if available)

  5. WorkshoP summary • The Purpose of an Assignment Sheet • What to Expect from an Assignment Sheet • NOW: Guided-Practice: How to Read an Assignment Sheet

  6. Guided-practice: How to Read an Assignment Sheet Project 1: Multimodal Discourse Analysis For this project, you will choose a TedTalks video to analyze. Your goal is to write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical and discursive devices that the speaker uses to present a message (a thesis) for a specific purpose. You will submit: • Inventory of the rhetorical and discursive elements in the video • ~1250 word analysis • Self-assessment of your analysis

  7. Guided-practice: How to Read an Assignment Sheet

  8. Artifact-Based Practice • Let’s examine the assignment sheet you brought with you today!

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