Reflective Narrative-Essay
At the end of the semester, you are to analyze your personal writing process and to discuss how the major assignments in this course illustrate your accomplishments. Your instructor may use this paper as a final-exam type of writing; or your instructor may require pre-writes and a complete process packet for this assignment.
The Reflective Narrative paper will be a discussion based on these objectives.
1. Apply communication theory, critical reading, and critical thinking skills to the composing process.
2. Demonstrate an awareness of language as a tool for learning and communication.
3. Develop strategies for making independent, critical evaluations of student-generated and published texts.
4. Collect, analyze, and critically evaluate information to produce writing with appropriate documentation.
5. Apply strategies for the composition process, such as drafting, collaboration, revision, and peer evaluation, to produce written documents.
6. Demonstrate an ability to write a well-organized essay with a firm thesis and a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.
7. Engage in pre-writing activities, including narrowing a topic, generating ideas, determining the audience and the relationship between audience and content, and determining an appropriate tone.
8. Develop an order and logic in the presentation of the essay that is appropriate to different rhetorical modes, including argumentation, analysis, and an essay-test.
9. Support a thesis statement with valid reasons and evidence (such as specific examples and details).
10. Follow the standards of written English, especially in regard to sentence structure, punctuation, grammar and usage, spelling, and proofreading.
11. Revise/Edit to develop ideas and achieve the quality expected of the completed writing.
Objective explanation
1) How well do you communicate
How critical was your reading
How much thought went to your essay?
2) Do you feel you are writing on college level?
3) How well you do in peer review
How well you do your sources
4) How well you document in your paper, In your in text citation and reference page.
5) How you apply your strategies, drafting's in your essay.
6) Process you go throush to submit your essay
7) Pre-writing, like brainstorming
How you generate your essay
8) Did your thesis statement essay support.
9) Did you make sure you use good grammar by not using "you" in your essay?
10) Did you have to reuses your essay?
Your discussion of these objectives, your personal writing process, and your accomplishments this semester should include a minimum of six (6) objectives and at least four (4) quotes from your own papers as they relate to specific objectives for the class. Because these quotes are your own words. they need not be documented.