ASSIGNMENT WRITING GUIDE
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Assignment Writing Guide

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INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 2 IMPORTANCE OF CITATION AND REFERENCING ............................................................................................... 2 USING PEER REVIEWED/SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES ................................................................................. 3 A NINE-STEP APPROACH TO WRITING ASSIGNMENTS ...................................................................................... 3 BASIC FORMAT OF AN ASSIGNMENT REPORT …show more content…

Are there any important people involved? Knowing such details will give you a better idea as to how to start and finish your assignment. 3. Organise your assignment
Make a tentative, organized list of headings and some sub-headings and topics about important issues that will have to be addressed. Inform yourself as to how Table of Contents (TOC) fields are formatted in MS Word, or other word processing application you may be using; and how to update the page numbers for your Table of contents as your composition grows and evolves. Fine-tune your listing of subject headings as you start gathering information about the assignment’s topics. Organisation is always the key to a well-written assignment. It not only gives you direction as you write, but it also gives your paper a certain level of professionalism.
4. Collate information and note your sources for proper citation and referencing Gather information from articles and other credible sources (preferably from peer reviewed journal articles). Take notes and write down reference information about your sources (you may forget or lose them, otherwise). The AIB Style Guide has details of what information is required for referencing in the assignment; make sure you collect all that information when you first have your hands on the source of information. Collecting all the necessary information for proper citation and referencing as soon as you encounter the source will save you