What is the purpose of this assignment? By this assignment, I am referring to the specific assignment whose due date is looming ever closer. Don't deny it, I know we all have them (and besides that would just be procrastinating).
It is crazy that having a purpose to writing is so integral to the assignment, yet I feel like I have never considered it before. I am an eternal optimist and I don't like to critically analyze things to the point of asking with complete desperation: "What is the point of all this? Why even bother trying?"
Murray enlightened me though when he stated that "[t]o choose, adapt, or develop a form, the writer needs to know the purpose of the writing to be done" (2005, pg. 298). Creative writing, such as a poem or short story or even a personal essay, appears easy to tackle with the techniques in Murray's book Write to Learn, but it all seems to fall apart in the realm of research projects and book reviews. Having a purpose, though, is the key to tackling these more challenging and focused assignments.
Finding the purpose of the assignment is as simple as making a statement saying what you want the reader to "think, feel, or do after reading it" (Murray, 2005, pg. 299). That's all? Truly, it really is that easy. A simple purpose statement will bring so much clarity to any form of writing - yes, even to that rapidly oncoming assignment. You should try it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment