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Today, I would like to introduce my way of doing an assignment. Because I created this, I have given it a name–the Julie Model.

1. ** Assess the rubrics **.
Read the rubrics carefully, and use a color pen to highlight the phrases that are important for you to submit a perfect assignment. For example, how long a paper should be,whether pictures are allowed to be included or not, what elements must be stated, or when the due date is. Ask as quickly as you can when you do not understand any piece of the rubrics.

2. **Design**.
Now it is your time to bring your idea and the teacher’s rubrics together. Always, always complete the rubrics first, then create an idea based on that. Outstanding students should never just fulfill teacher’s expectation, instead, they shatter it. Be sure to bring some new and fresh ideas into the assignment, regardless of whether the teacher has asked for. It is a way to make you progress faster.

3. **Develop**.
Add content to your framework. Typical content includes the key points you want to state, they examples you will give, the pictures or graphics you will incorporate, and the tools you will employ. Make it as detailed as possible and as clear as possible, so that you won’t get confused when you check the layout later.

4. **Identify potential problems**.
Nobody is informed of everything, and that is why people are encountering problems all the time. Highlight the problems you may have in some parts of the layout. For example, copyright, trouble in using some tools, or lack of experience.

5. **Overcome the difficulties**.
In this step, you are supposed to find solutions to the problems. Add different marks to different types of problems. For example, type 1 is the problems that you can solve by asking teachers, type 2 is the problems that you can get answers by searching on the internet, type 3 is the problems that you can solve with the help of your friends, etc. Keep the difficulties in mind, and make sure you will know how to solve them by yourself next time you encounter them.

6. **Apply**.
We alway say that: “Think before you leap”. Since we have prepared all the steps well, we can apply what is on the layout to the assignment. Try not to make any unnecessary changes to the layout when you apply, because you may have to redesign the whole plan so as to adapt the changes. But you may still add those changes that can raise the level of your assignment.

7. **Evaluate**.
Do not submit your assignment right after you finish the application step, instead, you should use the rubrics to evaluate your assignment. Have you fulfill all the rubrics in your assignment? Have you done anything that is contrary to the rubrics? By evaluation, you can correct the recognizable mistakes, avoid wasting teacher’s time on them and losing points that you should have earned.

8. **Reflection**.
After you get the result from your teacher. Look carefully which parts you have lost points. Find out that part, and compare it with the rubrics. If you agree with the teacher’s marks, please write down what this assignment has taught you; if you disagree with the teacher, ask the teacher politely why such a score has been given to you. Again, listen to the teacher’s explanation with full attention, and write down the advice or suggestions that he or she gives to you, and try to do better in your next assignment with those advice in mind. You may not be as excellent as other students now. But you finally will, if you follow this way, and apply it successfully into your assignment. Nobody is born to be excellent. It is excellent attitude and excellent learning methods that have made excellent people. Do remember the **A-D-D-I-O-A-E-R** method!



** //Created by: Julie Wang Date last edited: May 4th Course Name: ISTC 541&655 Email: zwang2@students.towson.edu// **