"Skills to be Learned"

From the document titled "Skills to be Learned" I'm familiar with majority of them. It can be a bit confusing trying to find out who the intended audience a writer is writing to is and the genre of a paper. I would think it's for a type of audience by what is being expressed and then I second guess myself. Certain kinds of papers I read have me confused on who the author is writing to or directing in his or her writing. I've gotten better at identifying the intended audience but I still have room for improvement.

            I’m very familiar with the writing process but I’m not familiar with adopting an appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality when writing. I’m not sure on how to identify the different voice and tone being used through writing and which is appropriate for a certain situation. When adopting a certain voice and tone, I know you have to stick it out throughout the entire paper and you can’t switch it up. When writing, sometimes at certain parts of the paper you will get stuck but it gives you time to brainstorm and come up with more ideas and make sure your paper has a nice flow as well.

            Some of the things I would like to improve will be to improve others paper better and give more details on what they could do to have a stronger paper. I want to be able to be clearer and help them to have a great paper and a great flow as well. I would want to understand what it mean to use and how to format a blocked quote because I’m not sure what that mean. I would also like to know how to properly use in-text citations. That’s a big problem because people may not be sure on how to use in-text citation so they chose to plagiarize instead. Another thing I would like to understand is the purpose and the structures of a citation. Once I improve these skills, my writing would be better than before and more structured.