DDHA 8011 Module 1 Assignment: Reflection on Doctoral Writing Feedback

Strong writing skills will be crucial to your success as a doctoral student, and Walden University offers many resources and tools to help you develop and refine those skills. In addition to the resources you can navigate through the DHA Doctoral Study website, Walden offers students a free Grammarly account using their Walden login. Grammarly uses algorithms to check your grammar, spelling, usage, style, and punctuation. It also assesses writing for plagiarism issues.

In this Assignment, you will develop a writing sample relating to resources in the DHA Doctoral Study website and submit it to Grammarly for feedback. You will then use the feedback to locate additional resources to help improve your writing.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Create a Grammarly account using your walden.edu email account at this site: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammarlyLinks to an external site.
• Review the resources found on the DHA Doctoral Study websiteLinks to an external site. and consider which you find most helpful.
• Review the requirements for writing an academic paper with APA 7 formatting.

• Walden University Quick Answers. (n.d.). What is critical reading?Links to an external site. https://academicanswers.waldenu.edu/faq/316545
• Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). About: OverviewLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/about
• Walden University Writing Center. (2014). Five strategies for critical reading. (Episode 5)Links to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/transcripts/podcasts/ep005
• Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). Paper reviews: IntroductionLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/paperreviews
• Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). Scholarly writing: OverviewLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarly
• Walden University Writing Center. (2019). What is academic writing?Links to an external site. [Webinar]. https://waldencss.adobeconnect.com/phb8r94cdleh/?proto=true

To complete for this Assignment:

• Draft a 1-page writing sample describing two or three resources from the DHA Doctoral Study website that you find most helpful. You may choose to use the same resources that you selected for your Discussion in this module, or you may choose to describe different resources.
  • Your sample should be formatted using APA 7 with all the required elements.
• Submit your writing sample in Grammarly for feedback.
• Once you receive your Grammarly feedback, review it, and locate at least two Walden University resources to help improve your writing based on the Grammarly feedback.
• Draft a one- to two-paragraph reflection summarizing your feedback and the resources that you selected to help improve your doctoral writing.
• In your final Assignment submission, include your writing sample with Grammarly feedback as well as your reflection paper.

By Sunday of Week 3

Submit your Assignment.