Reflection: Personal Writing Skills
Throughout this course, you have been exposed to many of the fundamental concepts of academic writing and composition. The skills you have learned in this course will lay the foundations for all of your future writing, and will help advance your academic and professional pursuits. In this Reflection, you will be asked to evaluate your personal learning over the last six weeks, and to explain how you plan to use and improve your new skills beyond this course.
Questions about this assignment? Post them in the Ask the Instructor area under Course Home. That way, everyone in the class will see and benefit from the Instructor’s response.
To prepare for this Reflection:
Reflect on the skills that you have acquired since the beginning of this course. How have your reading and writing skills improved?
Think about your experiences with the Final Project. What strategies did you learn, and subsequently incorporate, while you were working on your persuasive essay? Which part(s) of the writing process were the most challenging? Is there anything that you would do differently? If so, what?
Consider how you will use these skills in a professional setting or in your personal writing. Think about why it is so important to have these skills in a professional setting and for everyday life.
Reflect on your strengths and weaknesses in reading and writing, and think about how they have changed from the beginning of the course until now.
The assignment:
Write a 2-page paper assessing your personal strengths and weaknesses in your ability to read and write persuasive essays. Be sure to include answers to the following questions:
What did you find most challenging about writing your persuasive essay and why?
How might you improve in researching and writing your next persuasive essay?
Explain aspects about writing a persuasive essay that will allow you to be more successful in professional and personal writing and why.
Writing and Formatting Expectations
Write from the "I" point of view. After all, this is about you.
Indent the first sentence of each paragraph. Block paragraphs are not acceptable for this assignment.
Your final document should:
be in a 10- or 12-point font, such as Times New Roman or Verdana
be double-spaced throughout
have 1-inch margins for top, bottom, left, and right
Include your full name and the assignment title on the document.
Contact the Student Support Team for assistance with word processing. The contact information is in the Course Support section under Course Home.
Submit your Reflection to the Dropbox by Day 7. In order to receive full credit, all assignments must be submitted on time. Should you encounter an unanticipated and uncontrollable life event that may prevent you from meeting an assignment deadline, contact the Instructor immediately to request an extension. Your Instructor’s contact information is in the Instructor area under Course Home. For a full description of the late policy, please refer to the "Policies on Late Assignments" section of your Syllabus.
Save your Application as a ".doc" or ".rtf" file with the filename lastname_firstinitial_weeknumber_assignment. For example, Chris Smith’s filename for this Application would be Smith_C_w6_Reflection.doc.
Submit your Reflection to the Week 6: Reflection Dropbox basket. Directions for using the Dropbox are in the Course Information section under Course Home.
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