Lindemann chapter 13 touches on some fantastic points about
developing writing assignments. A part
of the text that stood out to me was on page 218 when she writes, “An
assignment usually reveals its purpose in one crucial verb, analyze in this case, and much of the
challenge in drafting effective assignments involves making the purpose verb
clear […] Keeping an assignment short allows the purpose-verb to stand out”
(218). This is an aspect of prompt
writing I have never thought about. I’ve
always just stuck a prompt and the board without thinking about the words analyzes or discuss. I mean I have used them in my prompt writing, but only by
happy accident it would seem. This
chapter has brought the importance of this purpose-verb to my attention.
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