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Formal Demands for a Written Assignment

Here you will find the PFI standards on writing a written assignment.

1.     A written assignment should be typed in accordance with the next format: Font size is 12 point, right and left margins set are at 2.5, spacing is 1.5. The pages should be numerated. In the contents list the number of pages need to be given under the various subtitles. The page number of your written assignment does not comprise the front page, the contents list, the bibliography, and the appendix.
2.    The written assignment needs to be printed double sided.
3.    All new paragraphs need to be marked by the skipping a line. It must not be marked by the indentation.
4.    The titles need to be typed from not centred, but the left margin. When the titles are divided into subtitles, there must not be more than three levels. Do not forget that the ranking must be presented by using minuscule and capital letters and the decimal number structure should follow the next example:

4. THEORIES ON LEARNING
4.1. The theoretical explanations
4.1.1. Traditional theory

The spacing between paragraphs new titles should be triple, but the spacing between titles and new paragraphs double.

The references must be used with the help of parenthesis in the written assignment, but not in the footnotes. A correct reference is provides with the author’s name, the year of publication and the page number when necessary (the page number of the reference is utilized while giving direct citation). For example, (Hirst 1987) or (Myhre 1988:160-162)

Essay as Written Assignment

Essays and courseworks are rather popular type of written assignment, which teachers give to students in order to check out their knowledge. Essays are more often, because they are smaller in size then courseworks. So, let’s see – what is more interesting – to write fashion essay or marketing essay.

If you are not a great specialist in fashion, then it is obvious that much easier to write marketing essay. It is not a problem to find a lot of information about any subject which belongs to the sphere of marketing. In this sphere almost all aspects are rather clear and definite and sometimes it is easier to understand various principles of marketing then differences between Armani and Dior. So, who is going to write fashion masterpiece? If you are a girl, then you will certainly estimate such excellent task. If you are a boy, then you also have a variant. If you are not a specialist in fashion and you can’t distinguish Armani from Dolce &Gabanna, then you should apply to custom writing websites. You can order necessary fashion essay at one of such websites and forget about Armani, Dolce, Gabanna, and other representatives of the world of fashion. But if you have to write two essays, then you can choose that one which you would like to write by yourself and second one t is possible to order at some custom writing website

Finally, you will see that everybody is content. You have the time to write good marketing essay for example, at the same time you get well-written custom-made fashion essay. Your teachers are also glad that you managed to cope with this written assignment.

Technical Standards on Written Assignments

The Faculty of Education underlines the impotence of learning and the state of being well informed of formal academic writing. That is why written assignment is an essential component of the studies.

There are different technical standards on written assignment. At PFI, the standards are as follows:

1.    Written assignment should be prepared due to the next norms: spacing 1.5, front size 12 point, left and right margins set at 2.5. The pages should be enumerated. In content list, page numbers should be given beneath the different sub-headlines. The amount of pages does not include front page, content list, bibliography, and appendix.
2.    Written assignment should be printed double sided.
3.    Each paragraph must be marked by leaving out a line.
4.    Titles should be made from the left margin. When the titles are organized in subtitles, there must not be three and more levels. The ranking should be presented by using capital and minuscule letters.
5.    Spacing between each paragraph and a new title must be treble and spacing between heading and a new paragraph dual.
6.    References should be presented in parenthesis and not in footnotes. A special reference is produced with the writer’s name, the year of publication and number of pages when it is necessary.
7.    You enable to quote, until five lines can be presented in the text. All citations produced in the work must be represented in citation marks. Long quotations must be given in a separated paragraph, single spacing and indented. The opening paragraph after inserting citation should begin in left margin.

Reverse Side of Student’s Life

What students usually do when they study at college or university? Frankly speaking students’ life is one of the pest periods which can be in our life. Students are people who don’t have a lot of serious problems which face all adults but they are already not children. So, the period of youth spent in college or university is really amazing. Life of usual students is full of communication with their group mates, various parties which are organized by fraternities as and sororities, sports competitions etc. Well, all above mentioned things are the best side of students’ life. But of course there is reverse side of educational process. This side is called studies. Students become students in order to study, to get knowledge and acquire speciality which will help them to find their way in future adult life.

So, what are main ingredients of reverse side of student’s life? This part consists of the process of learning. Students receive knowledge and demonstrate received knowledge by means of different tasks. Written assignment is one of the most frequently used way to check students’ knowledge. Written assignment can be of different types but all of them have one common thing. All these assignments must be written. Such academic papers as essays, courseworks, term papers, research papers and dissertations or theses are considered the main types of written assignments.

So, during four or five years which usually students spend in college or university, they often have to write such wide-spread written assignment as essay. In fact, students write plenty of essays on various topics. Also they write term papers at the end of semesters. Courseworks are also rather frequent academic papers which they have to write. So, we can see that written assignments are excellent way to develop student’s writing skills.

Power Keys to Written Assignment

As for me, written assignment cuts both ways. On the one hand, written assignment allows you to find out a lot of new and interesting information. On the other hand, very often a written assignment turns into a big trouble for many students.

The problems that students can have vary from the humble loss of inspiration to the difficulties of a practical kind: lack of the materials, unawareness of the topic and related issues, poor writing skills and so on.

In this article we would like to talk about the very first problem that students may face with their written assignments. This is loss of inspiration or just your inability to start writing.

So, these are the power keys that will help start writing any academic paper.

• The very first thing that really matters when trying to complete any paper is your general attitude towards this work. Needless to say, your attitude should be positive and optimistic. Try to get rid of all the negative thoughts and critical comments addressed to your abilities. You have to say: “I can do this work. It is going to be extremely interesting and fascinating.”
• Develop your working structures. By the way, once developed working structures will help you complete all the other assignments. Under the working structures I mean: your working place, the working hours, time to get some rest and so on.
• The final key to success is the additional help that usually can be obtained from your tutors and advisors. The main role of these people at your institution is to teach and help you. So, never be shy or afraid to resort to this kind of help.

Thus, when the beginning of your next written assignment will be failing, recollect these strategies.