Effective Writing Skills
This week, you will learn that being able to write in a logical, clear, and mechanically correct manner is a basic skill you will need to be successful in your schoolwork and in your professional life. The importance of being able to express yourself professionally in writing cannot be overestimated. Here are some ideas to get you started on this week’s discussion:
After taking the Self-Writing Assessment: Please elaborate on your strengths and opportunities for growth as you strive to become a scholarly writer? (#personaldevelopment)
Share an example of a time when effective writing skills was especially important in your professional experience.
What outside resource (image, video, article, self-recording) best reflects your own experience with scholarly writing? Share the link within your post. Why did you pick that item to share?
What about this week’s content is relevant to your own professional or academic career?
Response Guidelines
Your Writing: Each post should be courteous, succinct, professional, well-written and organized, using proper writing mechanics, grammar, and punctuation.
Your Post: Please post something to the discussion board related to the content covered this week. Do not create your post as a reply to the pinned post. Instead, use Yellowdig’s Create option to create a new post. Label your post with the hashtag for the week (#Week2) so that others can sort posts by the week’s topic, or choose from provided hashtags where relevant.
Responding to Peers: As you respond to your classmates, share your experiences and anecdotal feedback regarding their posts. How have your personal experiences resonated with their ideas? What can you add to their ideas, building upon the connections you have made to the material so far? Consider exploring the features of Yellowdig such as your ability to embed videos and pictures, create polls and videos, use hashtags, love or like a post, and so on.
