Understanding What You Read – A Pathway to Reading and Writing Success

To receive credit you must complete the competency assessment. You may contact your professor if you have any questions.

This competency assessment (CA) assesses your level of performance on the specific Outcome(s) that are the focus of this module. The CA requires you to demonstrate your knowledge, understanding, and proficiency of the Outcome(s). Be sure to use the other activities in this module prior to attempting the CA. You may attempt the CA multiple times within the term. However, the CA must be completed successfully by the end of the term to earn credit. Refer to your Syllabus for additional information regarding the number of attempts permitted.

Be sure to review the Competency Assessment Rubric to understand the criteria on which you will be evaluated.

Instructors will provide feedback on the CA. If you expect to receive feedback, revise, and resubmit this CA near the end of the term, be sure to follow the guidelines and deadlines for submission in your Syllabus.

This competency assessment assesses the following Outcome(s):

CM107M1-1: Apply reading skills to determine the elements of effective writing.

For this assessment, you will demonstrate your ability to apply reading skills to determine the elements of effective writing.

SCENARIO:
Imagine that you currently are a professional working in your career field. Your supervisor has noted you have strong reading comprehension and writing skills and has asked that you assist your coworkers who are struggling with these important skills. She has asked you to write a company newsletter to an audience of your co-workers, to define what effective writing is and to demonstrate to them how modeling their writing after the effective writing of others can improve their skills and help them to become even more effective team members.

DIRECTIONS:
Locate and analyze an effectively written, short peer-reviewed article either from the PG Library or an online article from a professional organization that you think demonstrates effective writing skills. Define for your coworkers what effective writing is. Share with your coworkers at least three effective writing strategies the author of the sample article uses in the article, and explain how applying these strategies from the article can help your coworkers, as professionals, to ensure the documents they write are also effective.

Your company newsletter should be 5-6 well-developed paragraphs in length, around 2 full double spaced pages, excluding the title page and References page.

Be sure that you do the following:

Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
Define effective writing
Identify the article’s author, title, and publication information.
Apply reading comprehension strategies to correctly identify the article’s intended audience, purpose, and main point
Analyze at least three writing strategies the author uses to develop the article’s main point
Explain what the author does to effectively convey ideas for his or her audience and for his or her purpose.
Explain to your coworkers how they might model their own writing after what this author does in the article so that they, too, can be more effective writers.
Be sure that your document is organized, edited, and professional in tone. If you use any sources to support your claims about reading and effectiveness in writing, give appropriate credit to the sources both in-text and in a References page. Be sure to apply APA formatting and citations requirements.

Minimum Submission Requirements

Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
5-6 paragraphs in length (approximately 2 double spaced pages, excluding title page and References page
APA formatted, including title page and References page, with all source information cited both in text and in a References page.
Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.

If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for revision. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a failing score.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is an act of academic dishonesty. It violates the University’s Code of Student Conduct, and the offense is subject to disciplinary action. You are expected to be the sole author of your work. Use of another person’s work or ideas must be accompanied by specific citations and references. Whether the action is intentional or not, it still constitutes plagiarism.

For more information on plagiarism and the University’s Code of Student Conduct, refer to the current University Catalog.

Please refer to your Syllabus for additional competency assessment requirements.