Student Success Skills: Self-Assessment

Take our quick assessment to identify your strengths and explore areas for improvement.

1. Select a module to begin your assessment:

Academic Integrity and Referencing
Academic Writing
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Critical Thinking
Data Literacy
Diversity, Bias, and Impacting Change
Information Literacy
Personal Development and Well-Being
Research Skills
Study Strategies and Assignments

2. Select the full module or specific skill to begin your assessment:

All Academic Writing

OR

Being a Critical Writer
Writing Coherently
How, and Why, to Use References
Achieving Good Style in Academic and Professional Writing
Discipline-Specific Writing
Avoiding Common Errors in Your Academic and Professional Writing
Using Careful Language to Make One’s Claims
Types of Writing Assignments

3. Begin Self-Assessment

For each statement select the button that best describes you. When you are finished, select submit to explore the skills best suited to you.

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1. Before writing, I clarify which skills the assignment is designed to develop.
2. I know how to discover hidden writing expectations in my discipline.
3. I understand the purpose of my writing assignments in my discipline.
4. I have helpful strategies for dealing with any writing-related discomfort I feel when writing in my discipline.
5. I know what types of claims are appropriate in different disciplines.
6. I can use evidence in a way that is consistent with my discipline.
7. I understand whether it is appropriate to refer to theory in my assignments and how to do this.
8. I know whether structural features (e.g. headings, bullet points, and contents pages) are appropriate in my discipline.
9. I am confident using the specific patterns of words and phrases that are common in my discipline.
10. I can identify grammar patterns in published disciplinary writing to help me write appropriately.
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