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The basic premise of this article is that certain limits placed on a given assignment will produce results closer to the anticipated finished product than will an assignment with loose directions. Students like limits on their assignments; the limits tell them what is expected and what is not. It saves them from having to shoot in the dark. Most of you can remember the dreaded writing assignment in English class soon after you returned to school in the fall. The teacher would ask you to write a paper on what you did last summer. Where to begin? What to say? I generally had done lots of things, and some of them were not to be written about or were so mundane as to be of no interest whatsoever. The point is, I was pretty much lost on this assignment. I needed guidelines and some starters to get me thinking along certain lines. |
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