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    Writing Skills Questionnaire

    Attitudes toward Writing

    Do you enjoy writing?


    In general do you trust yourself as a person who can
    find good words and ideas and perceptions?
    Do you think of yourself as a writer?

    Yes

    Some- No
    times
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    Generating Ideas

    On a topic of interest to you, can you generate lots of


    ideas and words fairly quickly and freelynot be
    stuck?
    On a topic that doesnt much interest you (perhaps an
    assigned topic), can you generate lots of ideas and
    words fairly quickly and freelynot be stuck?
    Can you come up with ideas or insights youd not
    thought of before?

    Revising

    Can you revise in the sense of reseeto rethink and


    change your mind about major things you have said?
    Can you find a main point in a mess of your
    disorganized writing?
    Can you find a new shape in a piece of your writing
    which you had previously organized?
    Can you find problems in your reasoning or logic and
    straighten them out?
    Can you write your sentences so they are clear to
    readers on first reading?
    Can you make your sentences lively? Can you give
    them a human voice?
    Can you adjust something youve written to fit the
    needs of particular readers?

    Editing

    Can you get rid of most mistakes in grammar, spelling,


    punctuation, and so on, so readers would not be put off?
    Can you get rid of virtually all such mistakes?

    Elbow, Peter & Pat Belanoff. A Community of Writers. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000.

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