Learning how other, more experienced writers and communicators make choices to
Learning how other, more experienced writers and communicators make choices to communicate their ideas effectively is key to changing the story of your writing skills so you, too, become the strong, confident writer you need to be to succeed in college and your professional career.
For this assignment, write to inform your instructor that you understand effective writing and explain to them what choice(s) you can make to change your writing story.
Select an informative piece of writing which addresses an issue relevant to your field of study.
Select either:
An informal publication like the transcript of a TED Talk or a personal blog post
A more formal peer-reviewed article from the PG Library
A business newsletter
In your assignment, complete the following steps:
Concisely explain to your instructor what effective writing is based on the knowledge you gained from Hawkes and PG Writing Center resources and what you learned in Seminar.
Explain what you think are the effective writing choices the author of the chosen document makes in establishing and supporting their main point.
Finally, explain what writing choices you need to make more effective in the future based on what you see in the model writing and how you plan to do that.