Written assignments

Today I started giving students feedback on the writing pieces that were submitted before Christmas.

You need to think of your work for me as a process of building a portfolio of your communication skills. So, don't think of your essays or reports as things that need to be done as quickly as possible to pass an assessment. Rather we should see them as intellectual artefacts that you work on perfecting. It may take time and everyone will work at different rates. The main thing is that, over the next couple of months, you develop your writing skills to produce work to add to your portfolio.

One of the ways of developing skills is to pause and reflect on your current strengths and weaknesses. This awareness of your strengths and weaknesses should help you develop your formal writing skills.