- Abstract
- Advertisement
- Annotated bibliography
- Biography or autobiography
- Brochure, poster
- Budget with rationale
- Case analysis
- Chart, graph, visual aid
- Client report for an agency
- Cognitive map, web or diagram
- Contemplative essay
- Debate
- Definition
- Description of a process
- Diagram, table, chart
- Dialogue
- Diary of a real or fictional historic character
- Essay exam
- Executive summary
- Fill in the blank test
- Flowchart
- Group discussion
- Instructional manual
- “Introduction” to an essay or scientific report (rather than the full report)
- Inventory
- Laboratory or field notes
- Letter to the editor
- Matching test
- Materials and methods plan
- Mathematical problem
- Memo
- “Micro-theme” (a tight, coherent essay typed on a 5x 8 note card)
- Multimedia or slide presentation
- Multiple-choice test
- Narrative
- News or feature story
- Notes on reading
- Oral report
- Outline
- Personal letter
- Plan for conducting a project
- Poem, play, choreography
- Question
- Regulations, laws, rules
- Research proposal addressed to a granting agency
- Review of book, play, exhibit
- Review of literature
- Rough draft or freewrite (writer writes freely, with no constraints for a certain amount of clock time)
- "Start" (a thesis statement and outline or list of ideas for developing)
- Statement of assumptions
- Summary or precis
- Taxonomy or set of categories
- Technical or scientific report
- Term paper, research paper
- Thesis sentence (sentence that expresses author’s main point)
- Word problem
Support
If you would like support applying these tips to your own teaching, CTE staff members are here to help. View the CTE Support page to find the most relevant staff member to contact.
This Creative Commons license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon our work non-commercially, as long as they credit us and indicate if changes were made. Use this citation format: Types of assignments and tests. Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo.