Assignment 2 Template
Assignment 2 Instructions
Assignment 2 is worth 15% of your final mark. It should be completed and submitted after you finish Chapter 7 in your textbook.
This assignment is divided into three parts, corresponding to the 3-x-3 writing process described in Unit 2 (Chapters 5 to 7) of your textbook. You will complete three activities in each part of this assignment.
Part 1: Prewriting (30 marks)
Activity A – Analyze a task
Activity B – Anticipate an audience’s needs
Activity C – Adapt your message to your audience and its needs
Part 2: Writing (30 marks)
Activity A – Research a topic and generate ideas
Activity B – Organize ideas into a coherent text structure
Activity C – Compose a first draft
Part 3: Revising (40 marks)
Activity A – Evaluate a text
Activity B – Organize a text
Activity C – Revise a text
General Instructions
The writing tasks you will complete in this assignment are based on real-world scenarios that describe a variety of situations.
1. Read every activity and scenario carefully in order to understand the problems that the characters encounter and the actions that they take.
2. Complete all three activities for each part in sequence.
3. Limit your answers to a maximum of one sentence per mark, unless otherwise instructed. For example, if a question is worth three marks, ensure that you write three complete sentences.
4. Decide what information is important for your reader to know and what is not. You may need to invent additional facts that you consider important to communicate to your reader.
5. Reorganize this information to communicate it to a reader in a clearer and more efficient way.
6. Integrate the lessons you have learned as you complete this assignment.
Review the following pages in the Welcome and Orientation section of this course Web site before you complete this assignment:
Marking Guide
Questions of Style
Applying the 3-x-3 Writing Process Plagiarism