Writing Project: Reflection
This assignment is intended to help you reflect in very specific detail on how your writing, critical thinking, critical reading, and visual literacy skills have developed over the course of the semester. Your audience for this project is me, your classmates, and the NAU community.
For this assignment, please both inform your audience on what you have learned and also demonstrate your learning with specific examples-in other words, cite your own work. The evidence for your thesis (main idea) comes from these experiences and the writing you constructed. Your argument needs to support or reveal your experiences to your readers-which you do by citing your own work, or pointing to specific examples in the papers you wrote for the class.
Remember that you can draw on the in-class reflections that you wrote.
In effect, this reflective letter will be an argument: here is what I learned about writing, and here are some examples I can point to, in my portfolio, that exemplify and show what I mean.
The "Outcomes Statement" (at the start of your ENG 105 syllabus) includes five broad categories, so your reflective letter will be read based on how you demonstrate your knowledge about:
Rhetorical Knowledge
Possible questions for you to focus on, in your reflective letter:
• What examples in your portfolio demonstrate that you can focus on a purpose?
• What in your portfolio demonstrates that you can respond to the needs of different audiences and rhetorical situations (including using conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation)?
• What can you point to that demonstrates your use of appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality?
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Possible questions for you to focus on, in your reflective letter:
• What in your portfolio demonstrates that you can use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating?
• What can you point to that shows how you understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources?
• What examples can you cite where you integrate your own ideas with those of others?
Processes
Possible questions for you to focus on, in your reflective letter:
• How can you demonstrate that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text?
• How can you show that you are able to develop and use flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading?
• What examples can you point to and/or cite to show that you've learned to effectively critique your own and others' work?
Knowledge of Conventions
Possible questions for you to focus on, in your reflective letter:
• What can you point to where to demonstrate the appropriate means of documenting your work, as well as controlling such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling?
Composing in Electronic Environments
Possible questions for you to focus on, in your reflective letter:
• How can you demonstrate that you can effectively use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts?
• What can you point to in your work that demonstrates that you can effectively locate, evaluate, organize, and use research material collected from electronic sources, including scholarly library databases; other official databases (e.g., federal government databases); and informal electronic networks and internet sources?
• What can you cite that shows your effective use of visuals in your texts?