Reflective Essay The reflective essay should be an 800-1000 word essay that examines your writing in light of our core learning outcomes: Process, Focus, Development, Rhetorical Strategies, and Conventions. You may choose any number of approaches to this assignment. For instance, you can introduce your reader to any of the following: • evidence of ways you understand your writing to have improved this term, either by identifying your habits and processes of writing or by examining specific examples from the essays included in your portfolio • accounts of struggles or challenges this term, specific to academic writing • consideration of the rhetorical contexts of academic writing, using the terminology you explored in Units One and Two • descriptions of your next steps as an academic writer • analysis of the similarities and differences between academic writing and the sort of popular discourse in magazines, newspapers, and popular web sites • examples of particular paragraphs that you find to be strong or representative of your best work (in the body of the portfolio, you might put these passages in bold if you refer to them in the introduction) • examples of particular paragraphs that you find to be weak or representative of frustrations you encountered related to writing or certain ideas • meditations on the most important writing skills you will bring forward to your upcoming academic coursework • descriptions of changed attitudes or levels of confidence related to your writing (for better or for worse) • analysis of one or more particular learning outcomes and how it is represented in the portfolio at larg
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