Read the following academic paragraph from a research essay and answer the following 5 questions. 1 Assignment essay tasks are set to assist students to develop mastery of their study subject. 2 Firstly, assignment tasks enhance understandings about subject matter. 3 Yang and Baker (2005, p. 1) reason that “to master your learning materials and extend your understandings, you need to write about the meanings you gain from your research”. 4 Secondly, research (Jinx, 2004; Zapper, 2006) clearly demonstrates that students learn the writing conventions of a subject area while they are researching, reading and writing in their discipline. 5 This activity helps them to “crack the code” of the discipline (Bloggs, 2003, p. 44). 6 Thus, students are learning subject matter and how to write in that disciplinary area by researching and writing assignment essays. (111 words / 6 sentences)