Perhaps the most important part of reflecting on your writing is to spend time critically reading your own writing.
With the work you did on the previous page in mind (i.e., goals), take some time to read through your previous writing, namely:
- QSRs 1, 2, 3, and 4
- Literacy Narrative 1
- Literacy Narrative Revision
- Rhetorical Analysis Draft 1
- Rhetorical Analysis Draft 2
- Research-Driven Writing Project Draft 1
- Writing from other classes
You an also consider Reading Annotations and Process Documents, as these were essential supplementary writing that assisted the larger writing assignments you completed.
As you read through your writing, consider tips for reading annotations from 9/1 and from the Reading Annotation Guidelines to think about how to make effective notes when reading that get more toward the “how” and “why” of things you read rather than just “what” you read.
In the case of reading your own writing to reflect on what you learned, you are looking for how you are doing things in your writing (e.g., at level of argument, organization, sentence, word choice, etc.) as well as why (e.g., to have reader linger on something, to provide a counterargument, etc.).
Consider, too, comments you got from your Writing Group and from me!
You may not have time to read thoroughly now, but by the time you submit your ELD, you would have read through everything you wrote very thoroughly.
In a comment below, tell me about one thing you noticed that confirmed one of the goals you commented on the previous page of the module and one thing that maybe was a little surprising that you did not mention on the last page of the module.
After commenting below, click the button to continue the module.
