Results of Writing Assessment and Your Analysis Activity Context This assignment measures your progress in mastering the following course competency: Write and present in academically appropriate ways. Activity Instruction In this unit’s study activity, you completed and scored your writing assessment and then studied the Writing Center modules available to you. Reflect on what you learned via the assessment and study. Share the results of your assessment and describe your strengths and areas you wish to improve. Develop a plan for fine-tuning your academic writing skills. Describe the results of your assessments, including your writing strengths and weaknesses. Share your actual assessment scores. Describe how you could use Smarthinking and Turnitin to support your writing. Select three or more additional resources that will help you improve your specific writing skill needs. Provide a rationale for your selected resources and describe how they address your writing issues. Include APA citations as needed when using outside evidence (including the assessment and the writing center modules). Make this a well-developed, 2–3 page document that you attach to your submission. Add a title page to all course papers, double space and use Times New Roman, 12-point font on all assignments. Use first-person voice in this assignment since it is a self-assessment. Please note that APA standards dictate third-person writing, which is required for most other course assignments. To ensure you meet all of the evaluation criteria for this assignment, refer to the Results of Writing Assessment and Your Analysis Scoring Guide often while you work on the assignment. Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information. Resources Results of Writing Assessment and Your Analysis Scoring Guide. Turnitin. Writing Feedback Tool. APA Style and Format.

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Writing is an art which is indeed a difficult and a complex process. Langan 2013 assert that proper writing needs careful planning, proofreading, revision and conducting a background study before commencing the writing itself. Since the beginning of taking the writing units, I must say, the quality of how I write has significantly evolved. Initially, I had difficulties with punctuations, sentence structuring, transitions and paragraph distinction among other issues.  I have come to realize that writing in such a manner was laborious. With constant practicing, many of my initial challenges have been substantially reduced. Now, I have more confidence in the content I write and the audience of my papers.

My strengths in writing from the assessment indicate how well I can write short sentences. I also make use of transitions from one idea to the other using paragraphs. The vocabulary and sentence structure are some aspects of my writing skills. Topic sentence and closing sentences help me make my paragraphs rich and easily understandable. However, there is still room for improvements in my writing since it was evident that I have a problem in proofreading and editing the work have written. Such weaknesses were visible from little grammatical mistakes which are easy to detect. Proofreading my work is difficult since when I re-read the work, it’s like am writing again and I feel that I am doing the rewriting.

To support my writing further, I would use Smarthinking and Turnitin. Smarthinking offers online tutoring for students hence is useful in guiding writers to perfect their skills. Specifically, it is essential since it gives the students concepts about a topic, or the tone, structure, and methods of how to write a research paper (Ashford-Rowe, & Howarth, 2014). It is vital to the extent that it is available for students to use 24/7 thus can be used both at school and at home. Have been able to consult on subjects that were not clear at school, and gained significantly.

On the other hand, Turnitin is significant to the extent that it helps in protecting the intellectual property. In the sense that it assists student not to copy the work of other people which have been published without acknowledging the author (Orlando, Hanham, & Ullman, 2018). It is useful in helping a writer develop content from other published work by citing directly, paraphrasing or quoting a source in developing content to write. After writing, the work can be submitted to Turnitin, and if it has been plagiarized, then the publisher or owner of the work would be identified. Other sources which are critical in writing includes Grammarly, Cite this for me, and EBSCOhost.

Grammarly is particularly special since it helps a writer develop proper grammar in the course of the paper. It can show misspelled words, poor adjectives, misused words and sentences which are fragmented.  Cite this for me is another writing tool which is critical since it helps in the citation of work done. When references are taken, it helps in the correct format of citing the work. It can help a writer to cite videos, journals, audio, TV program, radio talk show, and other publications. EBSCOhost is another database which is crucial since it has research materials which can be used to develop content for writing. It has some published books, journal articles, and research papers which enrich a person’s content creation, vocabulary and sentence structure.

References

Ashford-Rowe, K. H., & Howarth, D. J. (2014). Changing the game: the SmartThinking experience. CCA–EDUCAUSE Australia. Accessed, 10.

Langan, J. (2013). College writing skills with readings. Tata McGraw-Hill Education.

Orlando, J., Hanham, J., & Ullman, J. (2018). Exploring intentional use of a technological proxy, Turnitin, to enhance student academic literacy practices. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34(4), 44-56.