You Are the Editor
Throughout your master’s program, you have been required to learn and demonstrate academic writing skills. These skills need to be sharp to complete the Capstone Project. This Assignment has you revisit and apply the common writing tools available to support academic writing at Walden. These tools include Turnitin, Grammarly, the APA Publication Manual, and various Writing Center resources.
For this Assignment, you will examine and apply the resources to your own Discussion question in order to improve the style and format.
To prepare:
- Review and copy your Week 1 Discussion main post into a MS Word document.
- From the Learning Resources, review Chapters 8 and 10 of the APA Publication Manual and note the variety of formats covered.
- Review the OASIS resources and consider the requirements for scholarly writing.
- Review the “Academic Writing Resources” in the Learning Resources.
- Follow the directions to set up your account in Grammarly, if you do not have an account already. Submit your assignment to Grammarly. Retain the feedback that you receive from Grammarly.
- Access the Turnitin Drafts link from the Start Here area and submit your Discussion assignment for an academic integrity check. Retain the report from Turnitin.
Assignment (1–2 pages)
- Identify the relevant sections of the APA Publication Manual chapters on citations and references, and the Walden University Writing Center resources on APA format, that relate to the types of citations and references used in your Discussion assignment.
- Make any necessary changes to grammar, academic writing, or format based on the Turnitin and Grammarly reports.
- Revise your Discussion assignment based on this information to reflect correct grammar, APA format, and correct academic writing style, and save your work.
- Conclude with a paragraph about what you learned about your academic writing skills—strengths as well as areas needing improvement. Explain the resources you will rely on going forward with the assignments in this course.
- Post your revised Discussion response and the concluding paragraph to the Assignment link.
Resources
- American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
- Document: Capstone Project Required Content Overview (Word)Download Capstone Project Required Content Overview (Word)
- OASIS. (n.d.). Introduction to critical readingLinks to an external site.. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/crit...
- OASIS. (n.d.). Common reference list examplesLinks to an external site.. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/a...
- OASIS. (n.d.). Master's capstone writingLinks to an external site.. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/m...
- OASIS. (n.d.). GrammarlyLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/g...
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