We will complete an in-class writing exercise that will round out the semester.
Step 1: Complete the free writes
Step 2: Write up your reflection essay draft
Step 3: Post to the portfolio site. This is worth 5/10 points, so it is important to include!
On your own, you will use this template to answer the following questions (2-3 sentences for each question):
- Consider the main projects this semester (narrative essay, rhetorical analysis, research journal, research write-up).
- Which was your favorite? Why?
- Which was your least favorite? Why?
- If you had to go back to the beginning of the semester, would you have done anything differently?
- What would you change? And how?
- Now, consider the aims of the semester.
After completing ENGL 110 you should be able to:
- Recognize the role of language attitudes and standards in empowering, oppressing, and hierarchizing languages and their users, and be open to communicating across different languages and cultures.
- Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
- Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
- Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
- Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
- Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
- Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.
- Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.
- Practice systematic application of citation conventions.
- Next, one by one, respond to how your work on the assignments helped you to meet each course learning outcome this semester. You can fill in the blank if you wish:
__________ helped me to “recognize the role of language attitudes and standards in empowering, oppressing, and hierarchizing languages and their users, and be open to communicating across different languages and cultures.”
___________helped me to “explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.”
___________helped me to “develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.”
___________helped me to “recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.”
___________helped me to “engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.”
___________helped me to “understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.”
___________helped me to “locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.”
___________helped me to “compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.”
___________helped me to “practice systematic application of citation conventions.”
If you feel you were not able to accomplish that learning outcome, then please say so! This will help me to plan better for next semester.
