writing assignment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwritingandassignment
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writing
noun
uk/ˈraɪ.tɪŋ/us/ˈraɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
a person's style of writing with a pen on paper that can be recognized as ...
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assignment
noun
uk/əˈsaɪn.mənt/us/əˈsaɪn.mənt/
a piece of work given to someone, typically as part of their studies ...
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(Definition ofwritingandassignmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I was completely clueless how to go about thiswritingassignment.
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Frequently, marked papers were never looked at again, with students seeing eachwritingassignmentas a separate task.
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The experimental students' performance was superior to that of comparison students on discrete-point tests of grammatical gender, but not in awritingassignmentor speaking task.
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When in an 1843writingassignmentshe asserted that "genius produces without work," he sought to check her enthusiasm through long, patient but clearly critical marginal comments (246).
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The day before the attack, he told the school he was leaving for an extendedwritingassignment.
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If a spec script is not picked up, but the script is considered good, the screenwriter may be offered awritingassignment.
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Each student is assigned to a staff editor, who will read and critique eachwritingassignment.
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It was awritingassignmentand prohibition from talking to peers for a given period of time.
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After students finish awritingassignment, the instructor has two or more than two students work together to check each other's work and give comments to the peer partner.
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The majority of the time, a film project gets initiated by a screenwriter and because they initiated the project, thewritingassignmentexclusively becomes his or hers.
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Both the vocabulary test and the writing assignments were paper and pencil tests.
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Many students have pronounced weakness in this area, and often these students exhibit great difficulty with their academic and clinical writing assignments.
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Merton approached his newwritingassignmentwith the same fervor and zeal he displayed in the farmyard.
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The program is characterized by engaging classroom discussion and frequent writing assignments.
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He is current in all his own writing assignments and promptly circulates his votes on his colleagues opinions.
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Recently, public service has been removed and replaced with detention and tedious writing assignments.
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Short writing assignments will be completed daily and revised using peer response and faculty feedback.
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Eastman quit acting in the late 1980s to concentrate on his writing assignments.
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Peck lived out his remaining years cut off from his former colleagues relying on income from occasional writing assignments.
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