Discussion Problem: Reflection and Next Steps
This course has exposed you to database-search techniques, communication strategies, scholarly writing principles, and many academic resources and services with which to continue developing your skills. Perhaps, as a result of this course, you have begun to think of yourself more as a scholar practitioner in human services. Your identity will naturally evolve as you advance in the program, but where are you now? What strengths can you leverage to remain motivated, and what resources will you use to support your success? Need Assignment Help?
For this Discussion, you reflect on what you have learned and what is to come in the program, as well as your evolving identity.
To Prepare
- Review your course announcements for possible information related to this week's Discussion and Assignment.
Resources:
- Document: Developing a Scholarly Identity Download Developing a Scholarly Identity (PDF)
- Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.-p). Writing a paper: Revising.
- Walden University Writing Center. (2018, March 29). Applying feedback in your paper. [Video playlist]. YouTube.
This series of videos shows examples of how to revise a paper based on feedback. Examples pertain to thesis statements, transitions, paragraphs, grammar, and APA Style.
- Microsoft Office. (n.d.). Track changes in Word.
- Walden University, LLC. (2022). Instructor feedback [Interactive]. Walden University Canvas. This video reviews how to locate your Instructor's feedback within the Canvas classroom.
- Walden University Academic Skills Center. (2017a, August 29). Incorporating and viewing instructor feedback in a course paper [YouTube Video]. This short video demonstrates how to navigate the feedback an Instructor has left in a Microsoft Word document.
- Walden University Academic Skills Center. (2017b, August 29). Turning on track changes [YouTube Video]. This short video demonstrates how to turn on track changes in a Microsoft Word document.
Post a reflection on what you have learned in the past 6 weeks and how you can apply it moving forward. What strengths do you bring to your scholarly journey, and what barriers might you face? What are you most excited about in terms of the program? What is your scholarly identity? How has this course contributed to shaping that identity? What specific resources and services will you access as you continue in the program? Provide an example of how you have applied or will apply your learning in this course to your other course(s).