Advantage Study Skllls: Assignment planning (Study Aid 6)

By Richard Smith

The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -

1) Plan a written assignment

2) Understand the different types of assignment

3) Select a pertinent title

4) Take into account the reader’s needs and wishes

5) Pick out the differences between essay and report writing

6) Avoid plagiarism

7) Organize his/her work effectively

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Smith
• Release date: Aug 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781907910340

Richard Smith

Richard Smith wrote his PhD thesis on China’s economic reforms and has written extensively Chinese issues for New Left Review, Monthly Review, Real-World Economics Review, and Ecologist. He has also written essays collected in Green Capitalism: The God that Failed (2016) and in The Democracy Collaborative’s Next System Project (2017). Smith is also a founding member of the US-based group System Change Not Climate Change.

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Advantage Study Skills

Assignment Planning

Study Aid 6

By Richard Smith

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ISBN 978-1-907910-34-0

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Aims

The study skills learnt in this section should enable the student to: -

1) Plan a written assignment

2) Understand the different types of assignment

3) Select a pertinent title

4) Take into account the reader’s needs and wishes

5) Pick out the differences between essay and report writing

6) Avoid plagiarism

7) Organise his/her work effectively

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Section 1: Opening Comments

An Assignment is any oral, practical or written task given to a student with a view to assessing his/her competence in a