What is this topic about?

Throughout your time at Arden, you will be assessed in a variety of ways. It’s important to budget your time and resources when approaching an assessment, and to know what conditions you need in order to be productive. These resources will help you discover your own unique learning style and give you practical advice on writing effective answers to assessment questions.

Workshops

Reversing the Outline – How to Edit Your Existing Work

In this session you will learn how to edit your draft starting from reversing its outline. Before joining this workshop, you will need to choose an existing piece of work to edit, either a draft or a resubmission paper. Be prepared to break down the paper into paragraphs, carefully consider the key topic of each paragraph and its relevance to the question; identify problems; identify themes; cut unnecessary parts and rearrange the whole paper together in an improved form.

Understanding the Assignment

Understanding the question is a key stage of any assignment. By developing an understanding of an assignment question, the issues you might research and the structure you might use to write about relevant issues often become clearer. In this workshop we will look at ways to break down assignment questions and take time to practise the skills you need to start drafting clear and original responses to assignment questions.