This reflection activity is an opportunity for you to reflect on all you’ve accomplished this term. It is through reflection — contemplating what we have experienced — that we understand the importance of our experiences and make use of them in the future, i.e., reflection is a very important part of learning.
Instructions
Context
To better understand the context of English 102, you will reflect on your learning this semester. Using your own writing as evidence, you will evaluate your learning outcome achievement.
Purpose
The purpose of the Final Reflection Essay is to evaluate your learning outcome achievement and reflect on your learning this semester.
Process
1. Read your writing (major and minor assignments) from this semester.
2. Read instructor feedback on you writing this semester.
3. Review learning outcomes from our syllabus (see p. 2).
4. Choose three learning outcomes you have achieved.
5. Write draft of Final Reflection Essay
6. Post draft of Final Reflection Essay on Blackboard.
7. Respond to two classmates’ Final Reflection Essays on Blackboard.
8. Submit Final Reflection Essay by deadline.
Requirements
For this assignment, in 750-1000 words, you will evaluate and reflect upon your learning in our course, choose three learning outcomes (below), provide relevant evidence and development for each of the three learning outcomes, contextualize your overall thesis in an engaging introduction, close your essay in a relevant conclusion, and generally apply characteristics of thoughtful, engaged, and correct writing for your Final Reflection Journal.
Choose from the learning outcomes listed below in order to write your essay.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, you will be able to
Rhetorical Knowledge
Research
Analyze how audience/purpose dictate information included, the order of information, voice, language, and style
Develop an effective research question to guide a sustained research project
Apply conventions of format and structure appropriate to various rhetorical situations
Apply systematic research methodology using library databases to locate and utilize a variety of credible sources (e.g., scholarly journals as well as interviews, case studies, lectures, surveys)
Distinguish between credible sources and non-credible sources, both in traditional print media and outline
Integrate source materials using summaries, paraphrases, and quotations to support a defendable thesis
Processes/Conventions
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Create texts, with multiple drafts, that adhere to the conventions of Standard Academic English
Demonstrate close reading of a text through various strategies (e.g. annotating, outlining, summarizing, note taking)
Utilize invention and re-thinking to revise their work
Utilize a dictionary to help facilitate understanding of various texts
Collaborate and utilize effectively the social aspects of writing processes (writer-peer & writer-instructor review)
Locate, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize appropriate primary and secondary sources
Summarize and paraphrase arguments and/or other texts * Use quotations and citations appropriately (including sources that cite other sources)
Use interpretation to recognize the author’s meaning and strategies (e.g., induction, deduction) to develop ideas
Use MLA documentation system and/or the APA documentation system
Critique complex arguments of sustained length (longer than the average op-ed piece or newspaper article)
Identify and avoid different types of plagiarism (i.e., intentional and unintentional
Identify logical fallacies and authorial bias, and analyze their effects on an argument
Recognize and acknowledge diverse perspectives of an issue
Formulate constructive questions that facilitate meaningful inquiry
