Writing Reflection Assessment Lesley Harrison
Personal Writing Assessment Reflection
Lesley A. Harrison
Capella University
Personal Writing Assessment Reflection The purpose of this paper is to personally reflect on my current skills and development areas. Using the results of the Personal Writing Assessment as a guide, I will discuss the areas where I show strength and also discuss the areas where I can benefit from utilizing Capella University’s vast library of resources. These resources offer me the opportunity to improve and gain greater proficiency. This personal reflection will enable me to build a strong foundation, as I begin my graduate studies.
General Reflections The Personal Writing Assessment showed that I am strong in areas such as writing an introduction, building a strong organizational structure within a paper and finally concluding my research and position topic. Areas that will require further improvement are punctuation and identifying the Abstract and Executive summaries. I was not surprised at the latter development opportunity, as I am not familiar with the terminology and official labelling of such writing summaries, despite using them often outside of the academic world. I was however, surprised at the punctuation assessment. I studied punctuation, the use of commas and conditional sub clauses within sentences during the high school English Language. I have always found this to be a strength of mine. However, I welcome the opportunity to seek an independent review of my individual skills so that I can continue to improve.
APA Guidelines and Citations One area of development that was not surprising to me was my ability to use the APA format and guidelines. My previous undergraduate studies were undertaken 21 years ago in the United Kingdom. I did not utilize APA guidelines when I quoted references in my papers. I therefore feel like I am learning this as a completely new skill, rather than refreshing previous understanding. I am blessed to have coworkers who are also
Lesley A. Harrison
Capella University
Personal Writing Assessment Reflection The purpose of this paper is to personally reflect on my current skills and development areas. Using the results of the Personal Writing Assessment as a guide, I will discuss the areas where I show strength and also discuss the areas where I can benefit from utilizing Capella University’s vast library of resources. These resources offer me the opportunity to improve and gain greater proficiency. This personal reflection will enable me to build a strong foundation, as I begin my graduate studies.
General Reflections The Personal Writing Assessment showed that I am strong in areas such as writing an introduction, building a strong organizational structure within a paper and finally concluding my research and position topic. Areas that will require further improvement are punctuation and identifying the Abstract and Executive summaries. I was not surprised at the latter development opportunity, as I am not familiar with the terminology and official labelling of such writing summaries, despite using them often outside of the academic world. I was however, surprised at the punctuation assessment. I studied punctuation, the use of commas and conditional sub clauses within sentences during the high school English Language. I have always found this to be a strength of mine. However, I welcome the opportunity to seek an independent review of my individual skills so that I can continue to improve.
APA Guidelines and Citations One area of development that was not surprising to me was my ability to use the APA format and guidelines. My previous undergraduate studies were undertaken 21 years ago in the United Kingdom. I did not utilize APA guidelines when I quoted references in my papers. I therefore feel like I am learning this as a completely new skill, rather than refreshing previous understanding. I am blessed to have coworkers who are also