Develop at least three SMART goals to help advance your scholarly writing. Use the SMART Goals Template from the website to ensure your goals are realistic.
Post your three S.M.A.R.T. goals, and explain how these goals will help you move forward in your scholarly writing. Explain the barriers you might encounter that may hinder accomplishing your goals. Also, explain how you might address these barriers to completing your goals.
The following doctoral writing workshops are other workshops available to you to support you in your efforts in completing your dissertation/doctoral project study:
Doctoral Writing Workshop: Revising and Editing the Proposal
Doctoral Writing Workshop: Revising and Editing the Introduction
Doctoral Writing Workshop: Revising and Editing the Literature Review
Doctoral Writing Workshop: Revising and Editing the Methodology Section
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The major barrier is the fear of failure which I am likely to encounter. Failing to achieve my smart goals would be overwhelming based on the high ambitions I will have set in order to achieve my goals. However, I plan to overcome this barrier by viewing failure as a lesson that would help me to reorganize my strategies and learn more from my mistakes. The other barrier is lack of patience. Learning some of the new things that would help me to improve my writing skills will not be a matter of minutes. It will also require a lot of practice in order to perfect my writing. I, therefore, plan to overcome this barrier by taking a step at a time which would help me see the progress of my writing and thus move closer bit by bit to accomplish my vision. Also, focusing on the outcome of the improved writing skills is another barrier that will instead reduce my concentration levels of the major factors to consider in the writing process. I plan to overcome this barrier by toning down my expectations in order to concentrate more on the measures that would help me to achieve my goals.
