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    What Does the Professor Want? Understanding the Assignment | Writing in College
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    1. Noahdreyer77 28 Oct 2025
      Are there headings on the syllabus that indicate larger units of material? For example, if you see that a paper comes at the end of a three-week unit on the role of the Internet in organizational behavior, then your professor likely wants you to synthesize that material in your own way. You should also check your notes and online course resources for any other guidelines about the workflow. Maybe you got a rubric a couple weeks ago and forgot about it. Maybe your instructor posted a link about “how to make an annotated bibliography” but then forgot to mention it in class.

      With my stats class, the only way of knowing materials/big assignments are coming is looking at the modules as the professor has not and will not express any reminders or talk about it at all in class. I don’t even know the reason why I’m going to class. If most of us have to look online, he doesn’t talk about anything.

    2. Noahdreyer77 28 Oct 2025
      many of your instructors have been so immersed in their fields that they may struggle to remember what it was like to encounter a wholly new discipline for the first time. The assumptions, practices, and culture of their disciplines are like the air they breathe; so much so that it is hard to describe to novices. They may assume that a verb like “analyze” is self-evident, forgetting that it can mean very different things in different fields.

      I never had this issue as most of my teachers were student teachers training for a degree to teach in English one exception is the professor. I have now which is the reason why I am making this annotation He makes it easy to understand at least for me.

    3. Noahdreyer77 28 Oct 2025
      most instructors do a lot to make their pedagogical goals and expectations transparent to students: they explain the course learning goals associated with assignments, provide grading rubrics in advance, and describe several strategies for succeeding. Other professors … not so much. Some students perceive more open-ended assignments as evidence of a lazy, uncaring, or even incompetent instructor.

      Most of my teachers did not express the expectations to the students and the course/Learning goals isn't clear instead very confusing not efficient as way of communicating. Mostly through Pages of work but not explaining what this actually means.

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    Really? Writing? Again? – Writing in College
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    1. Noahdreyer77 28 Oct 2025
      College is optional, costly, and performance-based. Most institutions will dismiss you if your grades don’t meet a certain minimum. But college is different in more subtle ways as well, and those differences reflect the evolution of the university.

      Like for example this class the standard of writing is much higher degree as in high school when you wrote there was usually no clear goal to the writing but in a college you have a goal which makes it easier to write as you have an angle of looking and what you need to do.

    2. Noahdreyer77 28 Oct 2025
      Becoming an excellent communicator will save you a lot of time and hassle in your studies, advance your career, and promote better relationships and a higher quality of life off the job. Honing your writing is a good use of your scarce time.

      Like stated in the article, becoming an excellent communicator will make anything you do more efficient and smooth as you can deliver information to a better degree but don’t agree with honing my writing because the limited time I have can be spent on better things than writing.

    3. Noahdreyer77 28 Oct 2025
      You may have even performed so well in high school that you’re deemed fully competent in college level writing and are now excused from taking a composition course.

      With such high level of writing in high school has made most students have a harsh reality check when they have English writing in college as the writing in college is different from high school in so many different other ways.

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