Sequenced writing assignments--a series of related writing tasks--offer students frequent opportunities to write and to acquire writing skills through redundancy, progressively more complicated cognitive and rhetorical demands, and a diversity of learning activities. The most frequently identified goal of sequencing is to move students beyond personal knowledge and personal responses to shared values and traditions. Other goals include developing cognitive skills, integrating reading and writing, and building critical thinking skills. To help students achieve these goals, sequenced assignments are arranged linearly, from easier to hardest in terms of cognitive demands. In addition, for each assignment a subset of tasks leads students through the writing process, from brainstorming to editing. Finally, sequenced assignments are recursive, allowing students to draw not only from strategies used in previous assignments, but also from the information and situations in those assignments. Planning sequences around a theme, such as the family, offers students a chance to become deeply engaged in their material, to use writing as a way of coming to know. (A selected sequencing assignment bibliography and eight sequenced writing assignments for freshman composition are appended.) (MM)