Goal: A chance to sum up skills you’d improved upon or those you feel need more time to develop.
Timeframe: About 1 hour.
This is the last reflection on your goals for this course and where you stand in terms of what you’ve accomplished. Note that, while some people submit it earlier, you are free to send it in right up to our last class date — often writers in need of an extra writing center point take this assignment to the center for one last look.
Take a look at the things you have done this semester, particularly your formal writing assignments.
Write a simple brief journal entry (no more than a page, single-spaced, tops) that highlights the major writing skills and writing-related knowledge you developed in your Professional Writing course. I am looking for powerful but very concise writing on this one!
You need not discuss each and everything you learned; instead, focus on three or four skills that you feel you’ve improved the most from the beginning to the end of the semester, that best demonstrate the type of writer you are or have become by the end of the course, or that you expect to draw on in your future professional or civic lives.