Reflective Essay 2

First Draft due Monday, March 13

Complete Draft due Monday, March 20

Four to Six Pages, Typed and Double-Spaced

In this essay you will describe and reflect on your growth as a writer throughout this quarter. This essay will serve as the introduction for your portfolio.

Here are short assignments that you should be able to assemble into your reflective essay:

  1. One paragraph about your relationship to writing in English before you began this class.
  2. A one-paragraph summary of your growth as a writer in English before this class. The paragraph should describe what you learned and what you needed to work on.
  3. Two paragraphs about the development of your timed in-class writing and what you needed to work on.
  4. Two or three paragraphs about the writing and revising process for your analytical essay.
  5. One paragraph about what you would like to improve or learn how to do with your writing.
  6. One paragraph about what you believe the role of writing will be in your major or career.

The overall structuring principle of your essay is chronological order, but the parts of your essay that are about your writing this quarter (parts 3 and 4) should follow a problem-solution structure. Your problem and solution paragraphs should contain terms from the EWRT211 Portfolio Scoring Guide to describe what you have done well and what problems you have worked on. In part 3 or part 4 you should use at least one direct quotation from another essay in your portfolio and an explanation of the quotation in order to show clearly what you have worked on or how you have improved as a writer.

To prepare for your essay you should review the scoring guide and feedback you have received for your essays. For each part of the scoring guide (ideas, organization, development, style, and mechanics) you should write a vocabulary list that you can draw from as you describe what you have worked on and what you have improved.

Note that you will need a works cited page for this essay. You will need at least two quotations from one of the essays in your portfolio. Here is the format for a works cited entry for one of your essays:

Last Name of Author, First Name.  “Essay Title.” City of
 Publication, Year of publication.

Here is the format for a citation for one of your essays:

(LastNameofAuthor, "Title" PageNumber).

Before you turn in a final draft I advise you to visit the WRC and ask a tutor what kinds of repeated errors you made on the essay with regard to language use and how you can correct them. If you visit the WRC please check in with me after your visit.

The assessment for the essay will abide, when possible, with the Portfolio Scoring Guide for EWRT211.

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