Guest author Rebecca Weaver explains how a well-crafted assignment sheet can improve student writing--or, at least, improve students’ ability to deliver what professors want from them.

Teachers in all grades can apply these strategies for presenting concise, appealing, student-friendly assignments.

If the assignment has several stages of completion, have you made the various deadlines clear? Is your policy on due dates clear? Have you presented the assignment in a manageable form? For instance, ...

The 2019-2020 Rhetoric Center staff. We compiled this web site because the variety of assignments being given to Calvin students keeps growing (essays, speeches, posters, lab reports, project pitches… ...

Asking questions that are already answered on the assignment sheet or syllabus. Asking complicated questions that require long answers. Submitting an assignment without permission. Expressing anger ...