Nonfiction Project Assignment Clarification

In case anyone is confused about the purpose or requirements of the assignment, here you go:

To begin, the purpose of this assignment is to understand the importance of nonfiction reading for self/career improvement and put it into action. This purpose is written on the board and we discussed in in depth as a class before beginning the assignment. In this discussion we decided that there were two basic reasons to read: reading for the intrinsic enjoyment of it, or reading as a tool to help you accomplish another task. This assignment is intended to emphasize the second of these two reasons.

Each student is to choose a task or project that is important to them. It could be anything from developing a new hobby or improving an existing one to developing skills necessary for a particular college program or career. Students have come up with a wide variety of ideas including acting in a self-made film, creating a chapbook of poetry, taking a professional family portrait, comparing and contrasting branches of the military, and many more.

Once a project is decided upon, each student must the choose a book to help them to accomplish their project. The book is the real purpose of the assignment and we will pay close attention and study many aspects of non-fiction writing as the students work toward their individual projects. The book must be a non-fiction piece of appropriate length. Content must be justified by the student as to how it pertains to their project in a proposal letter that they will right.

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