DISCUSSIOn AD ASSIGNMET about scholarly writing
Writing
1-Discussion: Introduction and Reflection
As you think of yourself becoming a scholarly writer, what kinds of things make you feel excited? What kinds of things make you uneasy?
Reminding yourself of your strengths as a writer can help you feel more confident, while tracking your challenges can help you improve. This semester you’ll have several opportunities to reflect on your writing and to collect resources and strategies to help in those areas you find challenging. By the end of the course, you’ll have a kind of “writing toolkit” to take with you as you continue improving.
To prepare for this Discussion:
- Review the materials on scholarly writing.
**********Post your initial 2-paragraph introduction and reflection. In the first paragraph, introduce yourself to your colleagues. In the second paragraph, answer the following questions:
- What is scholarly writing?
- Thinking of yourself as a scholar, what is one area you feel confident in? What is one area for improvement?
2-Assignment: Feedback Review
Part of knowing yourself as a writer is understanding how you process and apply feedback from readers. Beginning next week, you will keep a Feedback Journal in which you document and track the writing feedback you have received, your resources/strategies/plans for addressing the feedback, and any questions you have regarding the feedback. For this short two-part Assignment, you demonstrate that you know how to access feedback and can initiate a dialogue with your Instructor about it.
RESOURCES:
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this week, you should be able to:
- Define scholarly writing
- Identify skills for improvement
- Demonstrate how to access assignment feedback
