Assignment Wording and Expectations
| Your assignments may use the following wording: | This is what your professor expects you to do: |
| Analyze, compare, contrast, distinguish, examine | Break down knowledge into parts and show relationships among parts |
| Describe, indicate, restate, explain, review, summarize, classify | Interpret information in your own words |
| Provide corroborating evidence, reference other works, research, cite examples | Use outside research to support your thesis or hypothesis |
| Use supporting examples, cite passages from the text, paraphrase, summarize | Quote or paraphrase to support what you have written |
| Evaluate, conclude, judge, predict, compare, score | Make judgments based on criteria; support, confirm preferences |
| Apply, illustrate, prepare, solve, use, sketch, operate, practice, calculate | Apply knowledge to new situations |
| Arrange, compose, formulate, organize, plan, assemble, construct | Bring together parts of knowledge to form a whole; build relationships for new situations |
| Define, label, list, name, repeat, order, arrange, memorize | Memorize, recall, and present information |
Text taken from Online Guide to Research and Writing
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