Assignment: Improving Writing Skills

For this assignment, please evaluate your own writing skills and then answer the questions listed below in a 150-250 word analysis.

1. What do you feel are your strongest assets in relation to writing (provide at least two assets)? Please explain why you feel this way.

2. What do you feel are your biggest weaknesses in relation to writing (provide at least two weaknesses)? Please explain why you feel this way.

3. What could you do to overcome one of your writing weaknesses in an effective way? Please provide at least three ideas for this. What resources/support services could you use to help you with this?

Here are some suggested areas to use for your answers above; these are just examples, and you are welcome to use ones of your own creation:

• Organization
• Spelling
• Capitalization
• Time management
• Punctuation (commas, periods, etc.)
• Staying on topic
• Use of support services (e.g. Writing Center)
• Development of content
• Proofreading
• Sentence structure
• Word choice
• Word count/length
• Clarity.