Thursday, May 7, 2015

5.7 Revising refletive essays

At the beginning of class we used the GE writing rubric and the assignment sheet to create a rubric specific to the reflective writing assignment.  Our class notes from this exercise were as follows.

Genre/Audience:  genre= analysis, with some elements from response writing (in that you are presenting your personal perspective/reflections); writing should be in academic language and it chould draw from the TS/IS templates.
The overall form is:
intro

  • set up focus
  • provide background
  • state (generally) the findings of your analysis


body paragraphs should present a point by point (one point per paragrph) development of the findings set up in the intro

thelater body paragrapsh should discuss and conflicts/additional points raised by the line of discussion (for exampol, what still needs to be worked on)

concludion

Focus:  for this assignment the focus is on what you learned/what you need to work on from the components of the class
the focus should be set up in the introduction, and each paragraph should connect to/develop the focus in a slightly different way

Development:  should include evidence from your writing/experience connected to the course.
include examples that are presented and then discussed in terms of how they helped (or not) you with your writing

Organization:  see genre expectations
organized as an analytic essay (similar to rhetorical analysis assignment)

We then applied this rubric to two sample reflective essays.

You spent the remainder of class working on your reflective essay

For next class:  All writing for ythe final reflective essay:
1. brainstorming for reflective essay
2. draft reflective essay
3. plan for revision for reflective essay
4.  final reflective essay


In class you can make any final revisions to your reflective essay and post the final version by the end of class.

We will spend the remaining class time strategizing how to write the endpoint essay, and working on the college comp portfolio.

Have a great weekend!



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