Beginning with the set assignment question itself, the first episode explains to students that one of the most common mistakes made in written assignments is not answering the assignment question properly. The podcast episode then offers a number of techniques for avoiding this mistake by demonstrating to the UCC student body how to break the question down into manageable parts by highlighting important key words and identifying the parameters and the overall topic of the question. To enhance the podcast and to make the first episode’s content more relatable to students, a student who has had issues in directly addressing set essay questions in the past is interviewed by a member of the Write Here, Write Now team. Through this specific case study, this interview highlights the difficulties students encounter when responding to set essay assignments and, more importantly, emphasizes how the student overcame these issues. To reinforce the issues raised from the student’s perspective, the podcast episode also considers the same topic from the supervisor and lecturer’s viewpoint. Here, the podcast episode focuses on the lecturer’s expectations, specifically in relation to the student’s capacity to relate the content covered in the lectures directly to the set assignment.