REFLECTION

(to be handed in with each paper). Length requirement: ¾ to one page. This counts for 10 points.

At the end of each essay, you are required to write a reflection. This is a final piece of writing in which you evaluate and comment on your own work. Reflecting on your writing means that you are looking back on it and considering how you have improved as a writer so far, and how you will continue to improve. DO NOT MAKE A LIST. Look over your work and make some observations; the following questions will guide you in these observations:

1. What did you learn about yourself as a writer?
2. What did you find easy or difficult and why?
3. What will the reader learn from your writing?
4. What improvements or experiments did you make in this paper? (Cite examples)
5. Who is the audience? Did you reach this audience?
6. What parts flowed and which took more time?
7. What suggestions did your peers make? (Cite examples) Did you follow their suggestions?
8. Where did you get your ideas for this essay?
9. With what are you most satisfied in this essay? (Cite an example)
10. What would you most like to change in this essay? (Cite an example)
11. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the essay?
12. What one thing will you do to improve your next piece of writing?