University Essay: Developing SMART Goals for Academic Writing

This essay focuses on developing SMART goals to improve academic writing skills, addressing weaknesses identified in a self-assessment. The author aims to enhance their academic writing by focusing on specialized vocabulary and appropriate tone through online tutorials, reading academic articles, and self-examination via routine writing tests. The SMART goals include improving vocabulary by 80% through reading academic journals and books within a month, gaining knowledge in referencing and citation styles through online tutorials within three months, and developing an examination schedule to measure improvement of academic writing skills weekly.

Running head: DEVELOPING SMART GOALS
Developing SMART Goals
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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According to my self-assessment from week1 discussion, I have some major issues
regarding academic writing. In that self-assessment I have also mentioned that I am planning
to read academic articles and journals to strengthen my knowledge. I have identified that my
major weakness is the lack of utilization of specialized vocabulary for academic writing. At
the same time, the tone of presentation in my writing is not appropriate for academic writing
as well.
From the beginning of 2010 the online digital tutorial system is one of the most
emerging educational practices used globally (Carroll et al., 2013). Therefore, for the
development of my academic writing skill I can use online tutorials from authentic website.
Reading with examples can enlighten the perception of reader about the topic. Therefore, I
need to read academic articles regarding academic writing style. Apart from that, for self
examination is best practice of improvement (Negretti, 2012). Therefore, I should also check
my improvement in academic writing through routine based writing test. The test must
conclude to scores to gauge my present improvement and further potentialities.
Aiming towards the development of academic writing skill the following SMART
goals have been developed:
Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely
Goal1 Improving my academic
specified vocabulary
By 80% through
reading
academic
journals and
books
That can
present the
sample
writing style
Within next 2
month
Goal2 Gaining knowledge in use
of referencing and citation
Up to major 5
referencing
Through
online
That can
visualize the
Within next 3

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techniques styles tutorials differences in
citations
month
Goal3 Developing an
examination schedule to
measure my improvement
considering
major 5
attributes of
academic
writing
Though
scheduling
my regular
lifestyle
That can
show the
improvement
with
percentage
Within next
week

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References:
Carroll, J. A., Diaz, A., Meiklejohn, J., Newcomb, M., & Adkins, B. (2013). Collaboration
and competition on a wiki: The praxis of online social learning to improve academic
writing and research in under-graduate students. Australasian Journal of Educational
Technology, 29(4).
Negretti, R. (2012). Metacognition in student academic writing: A longitudinal study of
metacognitive awareness and its relation to task perception, self-regulation, and
evaluation of performance. Written Communication, 29(2), 142-179.