All work for the analysis unit should be posted to your portfolio.
Make sure I have access to all of your work. At this point in the term, I think it is fair that if I cannot access your work, it will be marked as not turned in.
I will provide feedback/grades for the analysis unit by May 12
Reflective essay evaluating your progress as a writer for this course
The focus of the reflective essay is on what you learned as a writer over the course of the semester. You will analyze your experience of the different assignments from the course as a way to provide evidence of what you learned about writing and how you learned it.
process for preparing to write this essat:
do some freewriting about your experience of the course
make a list => write down some of the things =
- that you learned
- that were presented in class and you didn't pay too much attention to
- that were repeated/ gone over in every unit
- that you felt were not relevant to your writing needs
- that you resisted - but later found usefl
- etc
affter you have a list, do some wrting (short paragraphs) about the points on yur list= how they worked (or not); what they helped (or not) you with in your writing process, etc
Brainstorming - some of the things we did + what you learned for this course
- Reading strategies
- TS/IS academic language
- templates = language moves + overall forms for different kinds of essays
- using a rubric to anticipate readers evaluation=> to know what the reader (professor) expects in terms of genre, focus, organization, development and correctness
- summary (summaries are selective!) form (state the overall idea then support with appropriate references to main points; don't get lost in the details,
- process for writing summaries : read the whole article; take notes, do some synthesizing (to integrate your ideas) without looking at the text; write main ideas<=>go back to article (this should be a back & forth process => make sure you have enough distance from the article to synthesize/re-group the ideas, but enough closeness to ensure accuracy)
- persuasion: we learned the rhetorical appeals, the importance of AUDIENCE and PURPOSE for your argument, the importance of connecting to your audience's beliefs
- analysis:
- the puzzle allowed us to identify the analytic moves
- Analyzing M. Obama's speech allowed us to see the rhetorical moves in action, and to name them and descrbie what they did
- the presentations using Obama's moves gave a "feel" for how rhetoric worked
- we then analyzed some more essays together for practice figuring out what to say (identifying a theory for how the essay worked) and deciding on the best organization for writing an analytic essay0
- you worked on practice writing, drafting =>with conferences/feedback + in-class discussions
- what you learned from analysis unit: how to read an essay that you are going to analyzie, how to write/organize an analytic essay, how to use prewriting to write an analytic essay.
During the second part of class we looked at the prompt for the College Composition reflective essay, and you spent the rest of class working on your essays.
Description of the assignment: your essay should set up a focus on what you learned/struggled with/ still need to learn about writing. You need to state this focus (in specific terms) in the introduction, and to use the body of the essay to develop a series of points (with support from your writing/experiences from the course) that develop that focus.
For next class:
Write: 1) post the brainstorming for your reflective essay to your portfolio (paste it in to the reflection on course page); 2. post a draft of your reflective essay to your portfolio
In class we will use a rubric to evaluate some sample reflective essays. Then you will have a peer workshop on your reflective essay draft.
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