For this reflection, refer to the course learning outcomes:
Course Learning Outcomes
- Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
- Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
- Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
- Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
- Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
- Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.
- Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.
- Practice systematic application of citation conventions.
Write an informal, 2-3 page reflection in which you describe (that is, make claims and support them with evidence) how you did (or did not) achieve the course learning outcomes during the course of the first assignment. Can you demonstrate, for example, that you engaged in the collaborative and social aspects of the writing process? If you claim that you did, what evidence do you have to support that?
For the first part of the reflection, only address the course learning outcomes under FIQWS Writing Section.
For the second part of the reflection, begin to develop a theory of writing for yourself. What is it that you believe about writing? How does what you are learning fit in with or contradict what you already know? What strategies did you use to approach this writIng assignment? How well did this process work for you? Was it successful? Do you need to reconsider your approach? Most importantly, what do need to know about writing to be successful in your major?