"tackle assignments" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of addressing and working on a set of tasks or duties. For example: "I'm determined to tackle my assignments this week so I can have the weekend off."
She could be full of ideas, ready to work and ready to encourage others to tackle assignments — be it a PowerPoint presentation on labor unions or an op-ed for our local paper.
Many are drawn to online programs because of the flexibility, so students who pursue this option must to be able to independently build time into their schedules to watch video lectures, complete readings and tackle assignments, as well as contributing to class in writing.
An increasing number of these students, from all around the country, turn to study drugs to tackle assignments for Advanced Placement classes there are too many of or to pull an all-nighter while still being able to ace tests the following day.
V-Write tries to match students with volunteers who help them, mainly virtually (via e-mail or phone), tackle homework assignments and organize research papers.
In the contest, Filmaka challenged nonprofessionals to tackle monthly assignments to produce short films based on a brief idea posted on its Web site, filmaka.com.
These knowledge workers didn't expect to stay in one business unit in one region; they understood that they would be working in teams organized specifically to tackle pressing assignments in succession.
The man who was able to tackle hack assignments and adjust himself to all sorts of temporary currents, both in fashion and economic need, and of historicity, and who was able to make all of the compromises that inferior artists make, and yet it fused the product with truth and wonder … Also, what one likes about Shakespeare is that he wrote masterpieces of different kinds.
Though his students tackle conventional assignments such as making steel hammers, this solar sail spacecraft they will help build seems more like science fiction.
The feisty New Hampshire Republican arrived in the Senate in 1981 with a reputation as a tough prosecutor, and he was called upon by leaders of both parties to tackle tough assignments.
Tackle some assignments when they're asleep.
The Philharmonic musicians, under the incisive direction of Christopher Rountree, gamely tackled unusual assignments.
