{"id":674,"date":"2020-07-24T13:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/advancedenglish\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=674"},"modified":"2021-08-05T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T21:47:07","slug":"what-is-the-assignment","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/advancedenglish\/chapter\/what-is-the-assignment\/","title":{"raw":"What is the Assignment?","rendered":"What is the Assignment?"},"content":{"raw":"Before you do anything in your writing, you need to know what the assignment requires of you.\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">Tip: An assignment is never what the instructor \"wants\" from you; rather, it is based on a set of required learning outcomes and academic conventions that have developed over time by many educated, professional people. So, avoid asking your instructor, \"What do you want?\"<\/div>\r\nStart by reviewing the assignment.\r\n<h1>Submission<\/h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>How will you deliver this assignment?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is it a presentation, a webpage design, a written essay submitted on paper?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h1>Purpose<\/h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>What kind of writing is the assignment asking you to do? Is this a review? A summary? An argumentative piece?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Will you need to do research and cite sources? If this is the case, you can probably set aside ideas that will be difficult to do research for, such as a story about a personal experience. These might be better suited to a different assignment.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is there a specific length requirement? You will want to look through your ideas to make sure you\u2019re focusing on ones that you will be able to have an in-depth and well-supported conversation about in this amount of space. 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