Talk:Rhetoric and Composition/Analyzing Assignments

This is looking good, though some better formatting would make it easier to read. --Mattbarton.exe 18:04, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Dennis G. Jerz, 01 Dec 2005. What about putting a brief intro to Bloom's Taxonomy here? I think if a student were to ask the professor, "Where on Bloom's Taxonomy would you like me to focus," that would be a great way to open up a discussion about expectations. I think that would be more useful than the alphabetical listing, since a student who doesn't find the particular key words used by his/her instrutor will be lost in the current format. I don't want to undo the hard work that someone else put into making the list, though. I've posted a Bloom's Taxonomy handout at this address: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/style/taxonomy.htm

Shelly T-P, 13 Dec 2005. Would you recommend including this link to Bloom's Taxonomy? I am not familiar with it myself.

assignments
I put what I thought were basic assignments for a beginning English course, which is who I feel the audience is for this page. Old versions of this page had more specialized assignments which I think were more for upper level students. I won't be offended if there are other assignments that one feels are also "basic" and should be added!

Matt H's edits
Like with other pages, there were lots of sentences that were separated by two spaces, so I deleted the unnecessary space when appropriate.

I tried to eliminate wordiness when possible, and I deleted, or at least revised, many exclamatory sentences! In fact, I got quite the thrill from stroking the Delete key while staring in the face those exclamation marks! (Hopefully my doing so hasn't neutered the book's fun-lovin' spirit.)

Overall, the page length seems appropriate, the tone seems fairly consistent, and the prose and organization are coherent. The "Finishing the Assignment" section got me thinking, though, about whether we want to label sentences that begin with, for instance, "Interpret," or "Examine," as "questions."

(For example: "Knowledge: This becomes evident in how well you remember the subject matter, such as the major ideas, dates, places, events, etc. Questions may begin with: Identify, describe, examine, when, where, who."

Can a group of words that begins with "Identify" be considered a question? I'm probably splitting hairs but figured this issue might be worth discussing.

Additional Guidelines
I feel as though this page currently constitutes a fair summary of the general process of analyzing assignments. That being said, I believe it could use a few more "basic" writing assignment samples, as well as some further insight into the actual steps one would take when first looking into the task at hand (i.e. brainstorming, resolving unfamiliar/confusing wording, etc.). Once that is finished, some basic form editing should clean it all up quite nicely.--IMFlaherty (discuss • contribs) 22:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)