WRITE: 750 words for your final portfolio assignment. Review ALL the writing you’ve done this semester (OpenLab posts, your in-class writings, reflections, major papers, even emails!). Use the writing that you started in class to work on this. See instructions below. You can post this on OpenLab, or you can email it to me separately if you’d like your reflection to be more private. This is worth 10% of your final grade.

Consider the following questions:

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

As you browse through your work, ask yourself about and take notes on the following questions (you don’t have to answer them all in your final reflection.  These are just to give you some ideas.

  • How would you compare/contrast work you did early in the semester to now?
  • What was your favorite/least favorite assignment and why?
  • What are some notable lessons that have stuck with you after completing certain assignments?
  • What changed in your writing (reading, thinking) as the genres and assignments changed?
  • How did you make decisions in your assignments about content and design?
  • What were your early assumptions/beliefs about yourself and writing? Have they since changed? Explain.
  • What was your experience revising assignments?
  • Was there any peer feedback that stands out to you and why?
  • What was particularly challenging for you in our course this semester and how did you overcome it (or attempt to)?

Please, be honest! I want to know your true and honest thoughts about how you thought this semester went in terms of your writing. Your writing should be organized in paragraphs (with some sort of reasoning as to the order), proofread, and have some evidence/analysis. Most importantly, I want you to be honest with yourself. You are the main audience here. 

SUBMIT YOUR EVALUATIONS: Please find the email from NYC College of Technology Course Evaluations ( SPSSurveys@scantron.com ) and submit your course evaluation for this class. This will help me become a better instructor!

CATCH-UP: This is the last “official” assignment. Between now and December 20, you should be:

  • Revising and resubmitting your Unit 1, 2, and 3 projects
  • Catching up on OpenLab posts
  • Catching up on Perusall readings and annotations

Email me if you have any questions!