In response to your questions, I’ve made another video focusing on the Final Reflection essay. The video covers in this order:

  • Expectations and instructions for the final reflection
  • how to upload the essay (and the revisions you may be working on) onto the Blackboard site.
  • Note: you can’t see the grading rubric with the screen share in the video, so I loaded it as a pdf on the bottom of this post.

In brief, this essay should be around 1000 words. You should answer the three questions that are detailed in the Final Portfolio Assignment already on the OpenLab:

  1. What have you learned about yourself as a reader, writer and scholar this term?
  2. How will you use what you have learned this term and transfer that knowledge to other writing situations—either in college or within your community?
  3. As evidence to back up your points, you must use at least three quotes from your own writing this semester in your reflection.

On the assignment Final Portfolio Assignment page,  there are additional brainstorming questions to get you started.

Video:

The Dec. 3 video on the assignment, if you want that as well: Video Presentation: Final Portfolio and Reflection

Grading Rubric:

Download (PDF, 42KB)