Assignments & Coursework
Read the Brief
The marking criteria are the assignment. Everything else is decoration.
Ask a student what their assignment is about and you get the topic. Ask what it is marked on and the answer is usually a guess. Those are different documents. Before we write anything we map the brief against the rubric: what each verb demands, how the marks are split, what the department counts as an acceptable source. Half the gap between a merit and a distinction is here, before the writing starts. Send us the brief and see what it actually asks for.
What you get
- The command verb — analyse, evaluate, compare, discuss
- Weighting per section, so effort follows marks
- Word count tolerance and what counts toward it
- Required sources: how many, how recent, what kind
- Format rules that cost marks silently
- Submission portal and its cut-off time
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