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You’ve read what we have to say, but now it’s your turn. What questions do you have?
When I speak to my advisees I introduce the doctoral program in two parts:
Part one:
- core required courses
- specialization courses
- electives
- 3 residential colloquia
A colleague of mine recently sent me a Chronicle article titled “Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism: a Question of Education, not Ethics.” (Link to Blum’s article: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i24/24a03501.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en)
Once writers have explored Capella’s Personal Writing Assessment (PWA) by visiting www.capellawritingcenter.org — the third link under ‘resources’ on the Writing Center home page, encourage them to visit the second link–Writing Feedback Tool (WFT). This tool is being piloted by faculty across all school to provide feedback for writers, so learners may have been exposed to the tool previously in the courseroom. Through this Writing Center link, this tool is also useful for writers who want to explore their own writing process or who want to review work with peers.
The WFT addresses the 11 writing categories covered by the PWA. Users will note that each category is numbered and that the resources in both the Library and the Writing Center for each category can be accessed through the live links on the right-hand side of the WFT. Much like the Personal Writing Assessment, this tool is a great way for writers to chart their understanding of the Capella academic writing process and to mine the resources for each step that are housed in Capella’s Library and Writing Center.
Academic writing is viewed as a process at Capella, and the Capella Writing Center now offers a tool to help writers assess where they stand in terms of Capella’s expectations for academic writing. This tool, the Personal Writing Assessment (PWA), can be accessed through www.capellawritingcenter.org –the third link under ‘resources.’ This assessment poses questions about the 11 main categories of the Capella writing process. Upon answering each question, users are provided with the correct answers and the resources in the Capella Writing Center that address each writing skill set. Users can also print out a transcript of the PWA, and users can take the PWA as many times as they like.
This tool is a great way for writers to check their ‘academic writing pulse’ and to explore the great resources in the Writing Center
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