Students are asked to write on a particular topic(s) to an agreed length in a specific style writing in the style such as a journal, newspaper. or magazine. This form of assessment allows students to engage with research as academics do and produce a piece of writing on a specific topic. Alternatively, students could be asked to review articles using a review criterion set out by the lecturer. This could include quality of writing, clarity, relevance of the information to the topic, gaps in the research etc.