The document discusses different attitudes to knowledge and approaches to learning and how they affect academic writing. It suggests looking at a chart that outlines various attitudes and approaches and reflecting on how they relate to past writing and future writing at Michigan. It then lists types of writing assignments like research papers, business plans, and response papers. It provides details on an assigned research paper for a global economics topic that must be 5 pages, double-spaced, with 5 sources and an original analysis.