When beginning an academic program, it is important to consider what you would l

When beginning an academic program, it is important to consider what you would like to achieve by completion. Creating goals is a great way to make sure you are working toward something and tracking your progress. In this SMART Goals Worksheet assignment, you will identify personal, academic, or career goals that you want to achieve, and identify how this program will help you achieve them.
The content of this SMART Goals Worksheet will be the foundation of the Week 4 Goals for Success Rough Draft and the Week 6 Goals for Success Summative Assessment. You will develop SMART goals in these assignments using the stages of writing to prepare a graduate-level paper. In this paper, you will describe your thinking process and support your ideas with scholarly evidence. Practicing this process will improve your skills in using critical thinking and communicating ideas in academic writing.