Individual Assignment: Getting Down to the Basics?Understanding the Writing Process
Due Week 2 Day 7
Directions
Complete this worksheet and post your completed work as a Microsoft Word® document attachment to the Assignments newsgroup.
1. Put each of following parts of the writing process in the correct order.
_5__ Create a reference list or works cited page.
_1__ Brainstorm a list of topics.
_4__ Edit and Revise your paper
_3__ Compose a rough draft of your paper.
_2__ Compose your thesis and organize the information for your paper.
2. Click on the Center for Writing Excellence link on your University of Phoenix Student Web Site under Services, and click on the Tutorials & Guides link at the top of the page. Scroll down and click on the link to the Longman Exercise Zone. Click on the Diagnostic Self-Test, and take this self-assessment. What are your strong points? What areas do you need to work on? How might this information help you during this or any other University of Phoenix classes? -Sentences, structure, and word use are my stronger points. The areas I need work on are punctuation, and sentence grammar.
-This information will be very helpful with most of my classes especially when there will be papers due.
3. Select the following sentence that BEST explains why peer editing is a valuable part of the writing pr ...