Identifying your S.M.A.R.T. goals

CAEX WK 8: Week 8: Reflection and Next Steps: Discussion: Identifying Your S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Congratulations on all your hard work toward advancing your scholarly writing! You have developed skills that will help you throughout your graduate career and beyond.Week 8 is designed to further support your ongoing development once the course is completed. This week you will reassess your writing process and, with the support of your colleagues and Instructor, develop goals and strategies for continued scholarly writing improvement.

With your tailored plan, you will be well positioned to continue the momentum gained in this course!

Learning Objectives

Students will:

Identify strategies to address writing / writing process issues (A)

Apply resources to support their writing strategies (A)

Plan goals, strategies, and timelines for continued development (D, A)

It is time to review your writing process by examining where you were when you started the course and by looking ahead to any further needs.

Your perception of your writing process needs may have changed since the beginning of the course. How have your needs have changed, and what goals will you set for yourself as you continue your scholarly career? Here, you will take these findings and use them to identify strategies and goals that are specific, measureable, attainable, realistic, andtimely (S.M.A.R.T.) to help you continue advancing your scholarly writing.

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review your Self-Assessment from the Week 1 Discussion and consider how your goals might be tailored to further develop your scholarly writing.

Review the SMART Goals website in the Learning Resources.

Develop at least three SMART goals to help advance your scholarly writing. Use the SMART Goals Template from the website to ensure your goals are realistic.

Determine which Learning Resources might be appropriate to help you continue to improve your scholarly writing.

Post your three S.M.A.R.T. goals, and explain how these goals will help you move forward in your scholarly writing. Explain the barriers you might encounter that may hinder accomplishing your goals. Also, explain how you might address these barriers to completing your goals

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