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    What Does the Professor Want? Understanding the Assignment | Writing in College
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    1. tinale 28 Oct 2025
      Often, they’re grading your papers on evenings and weekends because the conventional work day is already saturated with other obligations. You would do well to approach every assignment by putting yourself in the shoes of your instructor and asking yourself, “Why did she give me this assignment?

      The professors are grading your paper on the weekend or in the evening because they need to work during the day and have other things. You should put yourself in your professor's shoes and ask yourself. How would your professor feel if you were in their shoes? To see how they feel. The professor has their own life and needs a break from grading and teaching. Sometimes you need to remind them that they have a life outside of teaching and grading your homework. If they forgot to grade your homework, you can politely email them to ask them to grade it or remind them, since they are so busy.

    2. tinale 28 Oct 2025
      Each assignment—be it an argumentative paper, reaction paper, reflective paper, lab report, discussion question, blog post, essay exam, project proposal, or what have you—is ultimately about your learning.

      Some assignments may be an argumentative paper, an action paper, a reflective paper, a lab report, etc. Other assignments, such as papers, involve a learning process. Some of the students understand the essay and the prompt. The teacher or the professor is looking for grammar, whether the students are following the prompt or not. Most of the essays are different. Some of it is research needed for the sites

    3. tinale 28 Oct 2025
      Professors don’t assign writing lightly. Grading student writing is generally the hardest, most intensive work instructors do.[3] With every assignment they give you, professors assign themselves many, many hours of demanding and tedious work that has to be completed while they are also preparing for each class meeting, advancing their scholarly and creative work, advising students, and serving on committees.

      The professor does not have to assign the writing lightly, and grading the student's writing is the hardest. It is the most intensive work for the instructor with every assignment, even though they give you and the professor, and try to demonstrate that it can be completed while they are also preparing for the class meeting, advancing their scholarly and creative work, advising students, and serving on the student body.

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    Really? Writing? Again? – Writing in College
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    1. tinale 28 Oct 2025
      The assumption behind high-school instruction is that the teacher is the engine of learning. Consequently, a lot of time is spent in direct face-to-face instruction. Homework is for further practice to reinforce material from that day. Teachers will often tell students what each night’s homework assignment is, follow up on missing work, and closely track students’ progress.

      The assumption is that the high school teacher's instruction is face-to-face and involves much time spent preparing the material for the students. Moreover, some teachers will remind the students that the homework is further to practice every day. The teachers are able to assign the student homework if they are missing work and closely track the student's progress.

    2. tinale 28 Oct 2025
      By the end of high school you probably mastered many of the key conventions of standard academic English such as paragraphing, sentence-level mechanics, and the use of thesis statements. The essay portion of the SAT measures important skills such as organizing evidence within paragraphs that relate to a clear, consistent thesis, and choosing words and sentence structures to effectively convey your meaning. These practices are foundational, and your teachers have given you a wonderful gift in helping you master them.

      By the end of junior year and senior year there are some strandarad and some english and such as english and some of the essay are portation adn the student are nervous and scared.

    3. tinale 28 Oct 2025
      Most college classes meet only 1-3 times a week for a total of about 3 hours. Consequently, college instructors think of class meetings as an opportunity to prepare you for the heavy-lifting that you’ll be doing on your own. Sometimes that involves direct instruction (how to solve a particular kind of problem or analyze a particular kind of text).

      Most of the class meets only 3-4 times a week, for a total of 3 hours. Moreover, most instructors use that time to prepare before the class starts, when the professor gives instructions. Most of the time students are struggling with heavy-lifting homework and that you will be doing on your own. Some of the professors would give the student instruction and not be clear on the direction and they students can’t understand or are confused about.

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