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Skiming Assignment

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Many times when students are given an assignment, they skim through it to see exactly what all needs to be completed. Although skimming seems as if it cuts time in half, skimming through things opens the window for you to miss important information. If a student were to come to me confused about where to begin with an assignment, the first thing I would suggest is pointing out what part the student does not understand. After we have figured out where the student is confused, I would suggest asking the professor to clarify. Anything that the student does not understand, they need to ask the professor until they gain full clarity, that way they can get the highest grade possible. Next I would ask if they had ever used an outline as a tool to complete an assignment. Regardless of the answer, I would help them begin filling one out, and we would start with what the teacher is asking. We would see that the teacher has assigned a four page, MLA format paper. I would have the student write down the criteria of the paper, that way no points are taken off on something as simple as the format. After we have gotten the basics of what the teacher has assigned, it is time to look at what the student will be writing about.
Now that we know the teacher was asking for a paper, we could begin the actual outline of the paper and its contents. The purpose of the paper was to complete an analysis of a poster, and in this analysis the student was to consider the rhetorical choices made in a poster. The purpose of an …show more content…

Outlines allow the student to be organized, and allows them to quickly identify when they are just rambling to make word count, or they are off topic. Once the outline is complete the only thing left that needs to be started is the thesis statement, and after all these things are considered I would say the student is off to a great start on this

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