Assignment Identifying Your SMART Goals

It is time to review your writing process by examining where you were when you started the course and by looking ahead to any further needs.

Your perception of your writing-process needs may have changed since the beginning of the course. How have your needs have changed, and what goals will you set for yourself as you continue your scholarly career? Here, you will take these findings and use them to identify strategies and goals that are specific, measureable, attainable, realistic, and timely (S.M.A.R.T.) to help you continue advancing your scholarly writing.

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To prepare for this Discussion

********Review your Self-Assessment from Week 1 Discussion( see below****) and consider how your goals might be tailored to further develop your scholarly writing.
Review the Top Achievement website in the Learning Resources and consider what S.M.A.R.T. goals are and how you can develop your own S.M.A.R.T. goals to help you move forward in your dissertation/doctoral process.
Develop at least three S.M.A.R.T. goals to help you advance your scholarly writing. Use the S.M.A.R.T. model to ensure your goals are realistic.
Determine which Learning Resources might be appropriate to help you continue to improve your scholarly writing.

_________________SEE: “S.M.A.R.T ” GOAL ATTACHED PLEASE!!___________

WEEK 1 DISCUSSION

Experience with Writing

Scholarly/academic writing necessitates different sets of standards when compared to other forms of writing. It is a form of writing where the writer must avoid bias, build a compelling argument and incorporate evidence. It requires the use of a language that is concise, clear, and error-free.

My experience with writing has been a bit fulfilling. However, I have not been able to achieve all my writing goals because of various weaknesses. In my writing experience, I have experienced a few issues, with the most evident one being the endless agreement errors. Besides that my first language is not English, it is Spanish, means grammar is not 100% perfect. Most of the problems that have been raised by my lectures have a lot to do with the incorrect use of subjects, pronouns, verbs, and the words replaced by these elements, and this has resulted to the occurrence of agreement errors. This has been my biggest hindrance, and I thoroughly need to work on it to improve my writing. Perfecting my writing skills will help me achieve most of my academic as well as my professional goals. There are other minor issues like occasional use of mixed constructions, but I would first like to deal with this giant problem before the others.

Based on my research, there are various strategies I can apply to overcome this challenge. The first strategy is to identify the sentences that are likely to pose problems; for instance, those with mixed subjects, collective nouns/pronouns, and verbs or those with inverted order of words. I may also read the sentences loudly to listen and appreciate their meanings. Using this technique, I will be able to pinpoint the agreement errors after reading them out loud. Additionally, I can also locate the verb (s) and link their association to the subject to solve the errors. I believe that with continuous practice, I will be able to address this issue together with the other minor issues related to my writing. By the end of this course, my writing skills will be on a higher new level; hence I will be able to realize my professional and academic goals.

Reference:

Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.) Paper reviews: Introduction. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/pa…