mistakes to avoid and ideas to help perform better

1. Suggestions
MINOR WRITING ASSIGNMENT

2. Minor Writing Assignment Focus
 Interpret the message in the source
 What is the main point that this source is trying to
get across?
 Advanced: could there be a mixed message?
 Avoid:
 Your own opinion on the topic being
presented
 Unless you think it can contribute to helping the
reader know that you get the message

3. Minor Writing Assignment
Strategy
 Find the connection between the sources
first.
 This will help you determine what aspects of
source to focus on in the interpretation part of the
assignment
 Avoid:
 trying to make the sources fit concepts that you
think might apply
 Using terms that you do not accurately
understand or can define/prove
 Ie. Reasonable accommodation, history, nationalism

4. Minor Writing Assignment
Technique
 Quote the source at your own risk:
 Always explain the quotation that you use
 Otherwise it is called cribbing –
 No need to bring in outside
information/sources.
 Train of thought vs. good writing