Assignment
An important part of any first course is reflecting on what the start of your educational journey means while defining your goals and how you plan to achieve them. Considering the reasons you enrolled in this university, your place in it and the world, and how you’ll function as a human who will learn in a virtual university, are important to your success.
Writing is a process, not a one-time event. This week is an opportunity to further reflect on the last six weeks by adding onto, revising and proofreading the rough draft you began in Week 4. Strong writers know that the proofreading and editing involved in revising their work is crucial to producing their best final draft. You’ll be practicing these skills as you finalize your own draft of the Reflection Assignment.
To prepare for the Assignment:
- View the Scholars of Change videos in this week’s resources.
- Read the article, “New Walden University Study Reveals Six Distinct Types of Social Change agents Around the World” to see what kind of social change agent you are.
- Review the Rough Draft Reflection you submitted in your Week 4 Journal.
- Review the comments and feedback your instructor made for your Week 4 Rough draft.
- Review the Week 5 significant object assignment and any feedback your instructor provided.
- Click the Week 6 Reflection Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment
- Download and review the Undergraduate Template and Paper Advice (Word document). You will write and submit your final version using this template.
Document: Undergraduate Template and Paper Advice (Word document)
This document is a template file that you can Save As and use to write papers using AWE and formatting of scholarly writing. The template includes writing advice and suggestions as well as instructions on how to use it.
By Day 7
Use one of the Undergraduate Writing Templates from the link above. Use the ‘Save as’ command to rename the file. Select text and type over it. Your new text will take on the same style attributes.
Locate your Week 4 draft.
Section 1: Introduction (click to expand/reduce)
Section 2: Main Body (click to expand/reduce)
Part 2: I will reach my goals by… (click to expand/reduce)
Part 3: I will join the Walden community by…NEW (click to expand/reduce)
Part 4: My story has many perspectives – NEW (click to expand/reduce)
Section 3: Conclusion – NEW (click to expand/reduce)
References (click to expand/reduce)
Writing Tips
- The goal of the first sentence is to get the reader to read the second sentence. Make your story interesting so the reader wants to find out more.
- Delete unnecessary words. They are like weeds cluttering up your good ideas. Instructors can tell when there are unnecessary words added just to fill out the word count requirements.
- Use Grammarly, free to Walden students via the Walden Writing Center, to find and fix grammatical errors. You found this in Week 3.
- Read your work out loud – to the mirror, to a patient family member or friend, to the dog. Your ears will hear grammatical hiccups and missing transitions that your eyes no longer see.
- Run spell check. Then check that it didn’t change words you intended for words it thought you meant.
- Save your work often and in more than one place, for example to your local system and to an online location.
- Allow yourself plenty of time to revise. It takes longer than you think.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
- Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK6Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
- Click the Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
- Click the Week 6 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
- Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK6Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
- If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
- Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
Grading Criteria
To access your rubric:
Week 6 Assignment Rubric
Check Your Assignment Draft for Authenticity
To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 6 Assignment draft and review the originality report.
Submit Your Assignment by Day 7
To submit your Assignment:
Week 6 Assignment
