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 for writing and values about writing), take some time to read through your previous writing, namely:
- Reading Annotations
- Process Writing homework submitted on Blackboard and Discord
- Learning Module responses
- Literacy Narrative 1
- Literacy Narrative Revision
- Rhetorical Analysis Draft 1
- Rhetorical Analysis Draft 2
- Research-Driven Writing Project Draft 1
- Writing from other classes
As you read through your writing, consider “Check-in about Reading Annotations and Learning Module” on the 2-8-2021 Lesson Plan 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 Final Reflection, you would have read through everything you wrote very thoroughly.
Task
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.
After looking at my past writings I was able to organize my writing better than I was before.
One thing I noticed that confirmed one of the goals you commented on the previous page is for convention, in which is about grammar. Punctuations can be confusing sometimes in which can be confusing to know which mark use. It’ll take more time to get used to using semi colons, colon, dash, etc. One thing I did not mention on the previous page is trying to have a cohesive argument which was a bit harder than I thought.
One of the things I noticed was that I was able to revise my essays a lot more effectively when I left time in between drafting it for the first time and picking it up again to edit. I was able to look at the essay through a fresh set of eyes because I had let it sit for a while. This was almost like letting the essay ferment.