How the assignment writing should be?

How the assignment writing should be?

In the fast changing field of academic, the impact of e-publishing, e-articles, e-books, etc., has been developed and has put forth a great  effort in gaining knowledge to the readers. Several authors gave guidelines for writing the academics (for e.g. Van der Krogt, 2001). Even though there are all kinds of e-advancement, assignment writing is a facet of every student’s course of study. Every writer should have a strong knowledge on the topic, to write any detailed description which develops the ability of the writer to analyze the situation critically. Steps involved in writing the assignment are discussed below:

Figure 1: Steps involved in writing the assignment

                            

Overview:

Determine the topic for which the assignment has to written and before writing the assignment the writer should have entire overview of the topic. Evaluate the topic critically and make sure the topic given is relevant to the subject area.

Outline:

A detailed outline should be developed from the overview of topic. A balance must be maintained, so divide each section equally so that equal importance of content is developed because developing more content under one specific topic will result in missing of some other topic. The outline plays an important role, in order to maintain the flow and structure of the content. In this step the heading are also decided.

Identify Key Words:

The main step in writing an assignment is identifying the appropriate key words for the research process. For locating the information the identification of key words on the topic is more essential because to it make the assignment more effective and impressive for the reader.

Information Collection:

 Collecting the information related to the given topic using the key word from the above step. The collected information should have a good quality which is more important. The significance of writing assignment relies on the usage of recent source information and reference, because recent information is more reliable which will have the recent updates. It is more significant to check for plagrism, because collecting information from internet is only to gain knowledge, but the writer must write the assignment from the knowledge gained from the source.

Organize the available information:

The Collected information must be organized systematically in order to have a good flow and structure of the assignment. Use the heading written in the outline and frame the structure of the assignment. This arrangement of the content can formulate an effective assignment or vice versa. The assignment should start with the reason to choose the topic and justification must be given for choosing the topic. Every assignment must contain the conclusion, were the result of the assignment is written. 

Language and Style:

In this step the assignment is evaluated for the flow, structure, language and style and moreover the assignment’s requirement should be met. If the assignment has any irreverent content that must be deleted immediate and should be rewritten. Make sure the constructed sentence and usage of words are clear and logical. The spelling for each word must be checked and which language and style to be used is also to be checked. Punctuation marks must be placed at the place where it must be (Holmes, 1995); standardized abbreviation used in assignment must be abbreviated so that the reader knowledge is also updated.

Rewriting:

This step is known as the “secret of good assignment” were errors which are found in the Language and Style step must be corrected before documentation. It is important to make the changes to have a good assignment (Smith, 1999).

Documentation:

The final step in the assignment writing is documentation. Every document developed must be present in an acceptable and neat format. The formatting include the table of content page were the subtitles of the topic is listed with the page number and additionally, if the assignment has figure and table that must be listed too. Even though the content is more important than the format, the appearance makes the first impression.

Don’t of assignment writing:

1.      If the writer did not understand the assignment topic is important either to clarify with their instructor or to choose other topic.

2.      Writer should not concentrate in one specific subtopic or showing interest in a particular topic, equal importance must be given to all topics.

3.      Don’t take the irrelevant content or reference for the assignment.

4.      Taking old reference is not accepted because there are multiple frameworks used in the assignment and the newly developed models are established only according to recent trend.

5.      If the word in the assignment is not proper, during the proofreading it is important to change the appropriate word.

After the submission of the assignment, it is important for the writer to get the feedback from their instructor and the experience of the research process.

Reference

Holmes, J. (1995)  Ling 312: Sociolinguistics assignment marking guide, Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington.

Van der Krogt, C. (2001)  Academic writing: Study guide, Palmerston North, New Zealand: College of Education, Massey University

Smith, P. (1999) How to write good assignments, Ringwood:Penguin Books.