Assignment Question
Write a reflective essay covering items from the list:
1. What five things have you learned about reading, writing, and inquiry in this course?
2. How did you describe your writing process at the beginning of the course? How would you described it now? If it is changed, why and how?
3. What strategies for writing and reading have you learned that you will take with you into other writing situations?
4. In what ways did you challenge yourself in this course?
Course Objectives
Throughout this course, the student will learn to: 1.Comprehend, analyze, and articulate a well-reasoned response to a variety of texts and diversity of topics, from student writing to published writing to academic discourse; 2.Evidence an understanding of how topic, audience, purpose, voice, and levels of formality interact and vary in different rhetorical situations, in academic disciplines, and discourse communities; 3.Utilize various invention, drafting, and revising/editing strategies to meet the purposes of different writing situations, materials available to the student, and length of time available for the task; 4.Engage a topic in which the student explores writing as a means of self-discovery, establishes a voice appropriate to the topic selected and rhetorical context, and produces a text that is designed to persuade the reader of the student’s commitment; 5.Clarify major aims, arrange material to support aims, and provide sufficient materials to satisfy expectations of readers; 6.Understand the process of research, both in the library and through electronic media, and develop effective research strategies; 7.Select, evaluate, and interact effectively with sources, subordinating them to the student’s 8.purpose and creating confidence that the sources have been fairly represented and acknowledged with academic integrity, particularly in summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting statements, or reproducing audio-visual materials and/or producing multi-modal materials; 9.Demonstrate a satisfactory control over the conventions of edited American English and competently attend to the elements of presentation (including layout, visual elements, format, printing, and consistent style of documentation) appropriate to the academic discipline or discourse community; 10. Ethically employ appropriate computer-generated technology to the production of a writing project; 11. Recognize the importance of writing as essential to inquiry, learning, thinking, communicating, life-long learning, and as a career skill. MLA or APA Format.
