Unique features of different university assignments

Carmen Bray
3 min readSep 21, 2020

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Students during their studying at the universities have different kinds of studying activity. A very important part of their studying process is individual work and preparing different assignments. Each assignment is for developing students’ skills, creative and analytical thinking, deepening knowledge in certain subjects, getting more experience, etc. There are such types of university assignments for students as essay, report, article, review, course paper, presentation, etc. Each assignment differs from another one. but they all together have got common features. So, here you can get to know about a few features of students’ assignments.

Students should know that university assignments can be divided into analytical, persuasive, descriptive, and critical. The descriptive type is the simplest one. Its goal is to present some facts or results. More difficult is the analytical type of writing. It also includes descriptive type, but requires more analysis, discovering reasons, relations, influences, results, providing some type of comparison, etc. the goal of such type usually is to compare, examine, analyze, etc. The most academic type of writing is the persuasive type. It includes features of analytical type but also requires the author’s points of view. Persuasive assignment makes such goals as to discuss something, evaluate, argue… And the critical type of students’ assignment is also like a previous one but you have to present there two points of view including your own one. You have to critique something, disagree with some statements, discuss the problem, etc.

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So, let’s consider a few types of university assignments. The first one can be writing the essay. It must present the point of view and have got some personalization. The essay has got such features as complexity, objectivity, responsibility, formality, etc. It has to argue some ideas; the essay is written in a narrative style.

The report is also a type of assignment. It is very informative and is supported by facts. The report describes different facts and analyses the results according to a certain topic. It is well-structured and has to be written with a specific purpose and can offer recommendations to do something.

The next assignment for students can be preparing a scientific article. The article is just a little completed research on the chosen topic. It includes the main obvious constructed parts, contains the methodology, literary overview, the way of research, quotes, and references.

Preparing presentations and report for the public is the next type of assignment students should know. It requires attentive work with slides and preparing a short report which figures out the main ideas of such an assignment.

Besides these types of university assignments, there are other ones. Remember, they have both common and special features, which must be presented in each type of writing.

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Carmen Bray
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