Final Reflective Essay

Reflection refers to the iterative process that we engage in when we want to look back at
some activity or decision weve made, to think about what weve learned from it, and how we
might use it in the future. Reflection is a powerful tool in teaching and learning think of it
as a dot-connecting mechanism and outside of academics, reflecting is a common tool
among professionals and organizations as a way to establish values, goals, and future actions:

What did I do?

What was significant about it? Did I meet my goals?
When have I done this kind of work before? Where could I use this again?
Do I see any patterns or relationships in what I did?
How well did I do? What worked? What do I need to improve?
What should I do next? Whats my plan?

Some questions to consider for your Reflective Essay

How do you define revision? What steps have you taken this quarter to revise for
different audiences and contexts? Provide clearly labeled specific examples.
To what degree does the target audience, purpose, or context impact the work in your
portfolio? Provide clearly labeled specific examples.
How do you analyze texts (including the work of other students)? How do you define
critical reading? Provide clearly labeled specific examples.
What role(s) has peer review played in your development as a reader, writer and
thinker? Provide clearly labeled specific examples.
What do you consider to be the most important components to your writing process?
Why? Has that changed over the course of the quarter?
How do you edit? How do you manage to ensure correct surface features: syntax,
grammar, punctuation, and spelling? What considerations figure into your editing?
Describe your approach to writing in different genres.
Describe your intended audience-based rhetorical effects on a project or paper and the
steps you took to achieve those audience-based rhetorical effects
Beyond the learning objectives, what individual goals did you have for your reading and
writing this term? What have you accomplished that you feel proud of? What would you
like to continue to work on?
Length: 750-1250 words
Due: In Final Portfolio by Tuesday, May 17th

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