Ashford University | Writelab Video Hello, and welcome to this tutorial on using WriteLab to revise your essays for English 121 and 122 at Ashford University. In addition, you will be asked to utilize WriteLab for a discussion board assignment, either in week 4 or week 3 of your English course. You can find the link to WriteLab in the specific discussion post assignment or by clicking on student resources in the left hand navigation pane. When you click on the WriteLab link you'll be taken to the home page for WriteLab. The first thing that you will do is click on the button in WriteLab that says New Document. Name the document whatever you wish to call it. I'll name this draft one. You can then select, under Assignment, no assignment. Then click the button Create. At this point you will see this screen. This is the point at which you can upload your assignment. Make sure that the assignment you wish to upload has been saved either as a docx file in Microsoft Word or a text file. Then click Choose File. Next, select the file that you wish to revise, then click Open. Your paper is now in the WriteLab system. In order to begin the revision process click on Get Comments. You will see a window pop open that says, one moment while we analyze your draft. At that point, you should pull out a sheet of paper or open a new blank Word document so that you can begin taking notes. When the next window opens you will see three tabs on the left hand side of your screen. One says New Comments, another says Addressed Comments, and the last says Not Helpful Comments. Under the New Comments tab you will see that the comments are focused on key areas like clarity, emphasis, and concision. You may want to make notes on that sheet of paper now about which areas you seem to have the most comments for. For the sake of this example essay that's freely available on the internet, clarity and concision seem to be the problem areas. Now look in the lower left hand corner of the screen. A comment appears in that lower left hand corner. Your job is to read the comments and follow the guidance provided there. In this case, the example asks me to correct the use of passive voice. It's a comment about clarity I'm going to try to follow the instructions that this comment is providing by clicking on it so that the sentence it's referring to is clear to me. In this case, what I need to do is correct the passive voice and I might do that by doing something like this. For instance, gods and mythical figures sought after virgins like Diana. From there I would need to correct that sentence. In this case, you may not know some of the terms that are being used. That's OK, that's why we have this activity. You may want to take an opportunity, if you look at this comment again on clarity in the lower left hand corner, you'll notice these buttons here. The check mark, you click on that when you've actually address the comment. If you can't understand th.

1. Ashford University | Writelab Video
Hello, and welcome to this tutorial on using WriteLab to revise
your essays for English 121 and 122 at Ashford
University.
In addition, you will be asked to utilize WriteLab for a
discussion board assignment, either in week 4 or week 3 of
your English course. You can find the link to WriteLab in the
specific discussion post assignment or by clicking on
student resources in the left hand navigation pane. When you
click on the WriteLab link you'll be taken to the
home page for WriteLab.
The first thing that you will do is click on the button in
WriteLab that says New Document. Name the document
whatever you wish to call it. I'll name this draft one.
You can then select, under Assignment, no assignment. Then
click the button Create. At this point you will see this
screen. This is the point at which you can upload your
assignment. Make sure that the assignment you wish to
upload has been saved either as a docx file in Microsoft Word
or a text file. Then click Choose File.

2. Next, select the file that you wish to revise, then click Open.
Your paper is now in the WriteLab system. In order to
begin the revision process click on Get Comments. You will see
a window pop open that says, one moment while
we analyze your draft. At that point, you should pull out a sheet
of paper or open a new blank Word document so
that you can begin taking notes.
When the next window opens you will see three tabs on the left
hand side of your screen. One says New
Comments, another says Addressed Comments, and the last says
Not Helpful Comments.
Under the New Comments tab you will see that the comments
are focused on key areas like clarity, emphasis,
and concision. You may want to make notes on that sheet of
paper now about which areas you seem to have the
most comments for. For the sake of this example essay that's
freely available on the internet, clarity and concision
seem to be the problem areas.
Now look in the lower left hand corner of the screen. A
comment appears in that lower left hand corner. Your job is
to read the comments and follow the guidance provided there.
In this case, the example asks me to correct the use of passive
voice. It's a comment about clarity I'm going to try

3. to follow the instructions that this comment is providing by
clicking on it so that the sentence it's referring to is clear
to me.
In this case, what I need to do is correct the passive voice and I
might do that by doing something like this. For
instance, gods and mythical figures sought after virgins like
Diana. From there I would need to correct that
sentence. In this case, you may not know some of the terms that
are being used. That's OK, that's why we have
this activity.
You may want to take an opportunity, if you look at this
comment again on clarity in the lower left hand corner,
you'll notice these buttons here. The check mark, you click on
that when you've actually address the comment. If
you can't understand the comment are at all, or you think that
the comment is pointing you in the wrong direction
with regards to how you should revise the sentence, you can
click on the X, which means not helpful.
But, if you're confused by what the comment is talking about
you can also click on this little question mark. When I
click on that question mark, it asks if I would like to see an
example. Then a kind of grammar guidebook opens up

4. and it will go over things like, in this case, the handling the
verb to be.
You can also leave feedback on the comment. If there was an
area that was particularly unclear to you, then go
ahead and click that button and let them know. In this case, I'm
going to select the check mark because I've
addressed the comment. I made a specific change to that
sentence. As I do so, notice what happens up here in
the tabs.
When I click on the check mark one of the clarity comments has
disappeared. An addressed comment has been
added. The same thing would happen if you click an X on Not
Helpful.
As you read the comments, you'll be able to take notes on what
areas you feel you need to work on. For instance,
this sample, as I said before, shows that the essay writer needs
to work on clarity and concision primarily. But,
when I study the specific suggestions for clarity and concession,
I may notice that some kinds of suggestions keep
coming up.
Let's say that all of the comments I go over suggest that I need
to work on passive voice. That's something I
should make a note of on that sheet of paper for future
reference. The notes you take here are what you would

5. use to write your discussion board post on WriteLab, so make
sure you take good notes. At the end of your
revision you will want zero unaddressed comments under the
Unaddressed tab.
If you can't understand the suggestions, the terminology being
used, again, I encourage you to try Googling some
of the keywords you see. Just because you don't know them
doesn't mean that you don't need to know them, so
use this opportunity to grow your style and grammar skills. In
this case, I might search the internet for articles on
passive voice.
At this point I could even click on this button to share my
document with an instructor if I wanted to. I could put my
instructor's email address here if I felt like I might want some
extra feedback, or if I wanted to know I was going in
the right direction. I could also send it to a friend or a tutor.
At that point, let's say that I want to make sure that I have this
finished copy of the paper so that I can share. If I
click Download, a Word document of my revision will be
downloaded for me to use and save to my computer.
I hope that this has been a helpful tutorial for you. If you have
any questions at all, please don't hesitate to reach

6. out to your instructor. We hope that this is a useful tool and we
invite you to give us as much feedback as you can
for it, since this is a kind of tutorial pilot project.
Thanks again, and I hope that you have a great English 121 and
122 experience.
CCC Course Project Part 8 Rubric
Name:
This rubric is provided to you to use as a guide in writing your
final project analysis. Your final project evaluation will be
graded for comprehensive content, analysis, evaluation,
application of the course material, organization, etc. This
evaluation is in lieu of a final exam. Please consider that when
you place value on its importance to your final course grade.
You will be graded based on demonstrating that you followed
this process, your application of the course material and your
analysis, not on whether you achieved the desired change. Your
analysis in Part 8 will require your thorough application of the
course material.
Project
Criteria
Explanation
Points
Score8A
What was the course material that suggests that this particular
communication behavior was an appropriate target for change?
Be specific, apply material from the text, lecture, TCOs, etc.

7. 20
8B
Consider the implementation of your new behaviors in Part 7.
Which of your behaviors particularly please you? What was the
course material that suggests that this new communication
behavior is a positive change? Be specific, apply material from
the text, lecture, TCOs, etc.
20
8C
Consider the implementation of your new behaviors in Part 7.
Were there any situations in which you were dissatisfied with
your approach to improving your interpersonal communication?
What was the course material that suggests that this particular
communication behavior continues to be less than ideal? Be
specific, apply material from the text, lecture, TCOs, etc.
10
8D
Consider the implementation of your new behaviors in Part 7.
What changes would you still like to make? What was the
course material that suggests that this modification would
complement or enhance your communication outcomes? Be
specific, apply material from the text, lecture, TCOs, etc.
20
8E
Consider the entire course project. How have your interpersonal
relationships changed as a result of this project? What is the

8. course material that suggests that these particular relationship
changes are positive or negative? Be specific, apply material
from the text, lecture, TCOs, etc.
20
Clarity, organization and quality
How well was your analysis organized and written? Were
headings and markers used to help the reader to follow? Was
the document free of grammatical and mechanical errors? Was
the writing clear and concise?
18
Total Score: (118 possible points)