Reflective Essay Assignment
Your audience is future students of Composition II, and your purpose is to prepare them for the work ahead of them. You've come to the end of the class and are in a position to advise and encourage others, based on your own experience.
Consider the works we have read, and their lasting value. Discuss one aspect of one work - a character, a setting, a mind-blowing passage - and why it resonates with you. What are some of the lines or moments that you find especially insightful or astute? How does it reflect the concerns in our world?
You must compose a 450 word, four paragraph essay. Make sure to double space and use Times New Roman, 12 point font. You may use your sentence outline in class. The essay must be typed and submitted to the drop box during the exam period in class Thursday. No research should be used for this essay. This essay will be graded using the same essay rubric used throughout the class.
You may wish to consider the following areas as you organize the two body paragraphs for your essay:
Plot Summary - What happens in the plot that makes this work worth remembering? Avoid merely retelling the story, here!
Conflicts - What conflicts does the work include?
Character - How does the writer reveal character? With which character(s) do you sympathize? Are the characters plausible? What do minor characters contribute to the work?
Setting - What does setting (time and place of the action) contribute to the work?
Symbolism - Do certain characters, settings or actions seem to you to stand for something in addition to themselves? In other words, are they symbolic?
Theme - What is the theme? That is, what does the work add up to? Does the theme reinforce values that you hold, or does it challenge them?
Connection - How or why did this particular selection come to mind?
2. Complete an informal outline for a 4-paragraph essay:
1. Introduction
2. Body paragraph 1
3. Body paragraph 2
4. Conclusion
Requirements for the essay include:
1. A 4-5 sentence introduction which provides general background on the topic and then gets to the point (the thesis). The thesis should be the last sentence and should directly state a position on the topic.
2. Restricted topic sentences which start each body paragraph and which support the thesis.
3. Unified body paragraphs which include relevant and sufficient support in each. Specific examples and elaboration in each body paragraph.
4. A short 3-4 sentence conclusion which restates the main point in original words and wraps up.
5. No first person (I, we, our) or second person(you or commands) may be used.
6. Standard American English should be used. Use formal academic word choices.
7. Appropriate use of external and internal transitions.
3. Use your informal outline as you draft your essay.
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