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Coursework Guides

Guides for the graded work a course is actually built from: presentations, book reports and reviews, portfolio pieces, and the weekly submissions that add up to a final mark. Each article works backwards from the rubric, so you can see how a marker will read your work before you hand it in.

Book Review vs Book Report: What Your Professor Wants

Book Review vs Book Report: What Your Professor Wants

Read your assignment prompt once more and look for one thing: whether it asks you to judge the book. If it does, you are writing a review. I ...

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Rubric Examples, Read Line by Line

Rubric Examples, Read Line by Line

Nearly every rubric example online was built for teachers — a template to grade with, not a document to write against. That is the wrong w ...

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Book Review Examples, Annotated

Book Review Examples, Annotated

Search for book review examples and the results mix two genres that have almost nothing in common. A review in a literary magazine and a rev ...

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Reflection Paper Examples

Reflection Paper Examples

The problem with most reflection paper examples is that they show you a finished piece without telling you what it would score. You read som ...

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How to Build a Presentation Outline for Class

How to Build a Presentation Outline for Class

Build the outline before you open any slide software. Slides are a delivery format; the outline is the actual work, and starting with slides ...

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How to Write a Reflection Paper

How to Write a Reflection Paper

Most reflection papers fail in the same place. The writer describes what happened, describes it well, and never gets to why it mattered. The ...

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How to Write a Book Review for a Class

How to Write a Book Review for a Class

Your instructor has already read the book. That one fact separates a review written for a class from almost every review you have ever read. ...

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How to Write a Book Report, With Worked Examples

How to Write a Book Report, With Worked Examples

A book report answers one question: did you read the book, and did you understand it? That is a lower bar than a book review, which asks you ...

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What Is a Rubric, and How Do You Actually Read One?

What Is a Rubric, and How Do You Actually Read One?

A rubric is the grading sheet your instructor will use on your work, handed to you before you start. It breaks the assignment into the thing ...

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