Quick Checklist for Assessing a Writing Assignment

Checklist for assessing your writing assignment

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Topic

• Have you been givin a specific topic, a range of topics or are you fre to chose your own?
• What interests you about your topic? 
• What questions do you have before you begin to write about your topic?
• How will your readers benifit from your topc?
• How broad is your topic or do you need to narrow down the content?

Sources of information

• Where will the content of your topic come from?
• What sort of documentaion and resourse verification is needed?
• Is this written from a persoan experience, held and interview, observed or asked during a questionaire?

Readers

• Who are you writing to? Who are your readers?
• How are you writing? To inform them, debate, persuade for sale?
• What is your relationship to your readers? Are they peer to peer, teacher, expert?

Length requirement

• What is the requirement on the lenght of the assignment?

Stages of writing

• What is the topic?
• What are the specific requirements?
• Who will review first draft?
• What are your deadlines?
• What is needed to complete final draft?

Using this quick guideline will help you get a jumpstart any writing assignment. The toughest part is writing the first draft. Good Luck