The phrase "a simple assignment of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of assigning something in a straightforward or uncomplicated manner.
Example: "The teacher provided a simple assignment of reading a chapter from the textbook."
Alternatives: "a straightforward task of" or "an easy allocation of".
So this week, her first graders had a simple assignment: To pen notes of understanding and forgiveness to the NFL player, cheering him up with stories of how they, too, have faced heartbreak on the playing field.
Whilst there his task is a simple assignment to investigate the disappearance of Commander John Strangways, the head of MI6 Station J in Kingston, Jamaica, and his secretary.
In 1962, commanding troops of the 4th KAR, he carried out the Turkana Massacre, an operation that began as a simple assignment to check cattle rustling by tribesmen in the Turkana region of Kenya.
An example of a simple assignment and rubric, provided by Linda Martin-Mofris of the University of Washington, is shown in Table 2. Other examples of rubrics for grading scientific songs and poems have been published previously (Waters and Straits, 2008; Marcum-Dietrich et al., 2009).
Thessaly La Force, the editor of 'MY IDEAL BOOKSHELittleittle, Brown & Company, $24.99), had the inspired idea to provide dozens of writers, chefs, musicians and Hollywood types with a simple assignment: "Select a small shelf of books that represent you — the books that have changed your life, that have made you who you are today, your favorite favorites".
The technology is beautiful to look at and fun to use, but compiling a slick multimedia show on your iPad does not prove you really understand something.I will never forget watching a classroom full of 12-year-old history students, each with their own new laptop, flounder as they tried to complete a simple assignment about the differences between the ideologies of Hamilton and Jefferson.
William St Clair deserves some sort of medal (Disorder of the British Empire, perhaps) for sifting through records and ledgers, and assembling so beguiling a description of its cruel career.He is careful in his discussion of slavery, describing the gross inhumanity involved, but avoiding a too rapid or too simple assignment of blame.
