- Reflective Essay: Warm-up Writing Prompt: Write a note to yourself describing your journey through this course and proclaiming your readiness to advance academically. Focus on specific writing/reading tasks that have helped you improve on specific skills from our Learning Outcomes (listed in our Syllabus). –Brainstorm and/or list those things you feel your essays demonstrate successful acquisition (what skills have you acquired and what areas of your two major essays can you point to as proof? g. – “I have become a better synthesizer of knowledge; specifically, my ability to integrate multiple sources into my writing has improved as can be seen in my various drafts of my short essay, especially my final draft in which I have used not only the required texts but also cited an outside resource to enliven discussion on the two sources under investigation.”
Two things they are looking for: demonstrated and declared improvement; honest self-assessment.
“Mr. Ball, taught me how to use commas.”
“Mr. Ball taught me how to use commas.”
–Skills Learned: Will help academically, professionally, and personal. Format, Structure, Framework; Logical Form; Planning and Organization; MLA style (format); formality: tone, voice.. Presentation of evidence in concise language; punctuation; transition statements (phrases and clauses)
–Challenges: Honesty but not Deprecation. Proper Citation; Synthesis and Articulation of Ideas; How to best position one’s self within the essay (1st>>3rd; 3rd>>1st); Narrative writing versus Formal Argumentative writing
–Essays/Writing Tasks As Evidence: Always point every calom toward some support within you portfolio.
A reflective essay should be constructed for your portfolio like a letter and an essay.
A reflective essay is a snapshot of your personal journey as a writer and writing education (with a clear emphasis on the work done in this course).
18 July 2023
Dear English, Literature, and Speech Department:
I am writing today to declare my readiness to advance with my succeful attainment of most of the skills presented and practiced in my English 101 class…..
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As you can see, I am ready to move on in my academics with a clear understanding of what I have learned and what I need to do to continue to learn, as I showed in my examples from the coursework of English 101/097. Thank for your consideration of my efforts.
Sincerely,
Andy Ball
Enlgish 101/097 ALP1
VOCAB: Ineffable, Wittgenstein, ultimate (last), penultimate (2nd to last), antepenultimate (3rd to last)…
ePortfolio Updates: What do I have left to do to complete my ePortfolio? (recording AVAILABLE)
Revision Practices: What revision skills do you feel you are well-adapted to?
AW: Repair of mistakes/errors in citation are usually editing; source/quote integration is, in fact, a revision issue because it involves how we connect outside information to our ideas.
Good Revision: what is it?
TW: Go back and consider feedback; check outside resources including style guides and assignment specifics; try again if given an opportunity.
ST: Connecting cited material to the topic of our body paragraphs, and considering how each connects back to our thesis; this might entail major change at each level, or minor changes at the conception of main idea (thesis revision is a key strategy for a critical read of the body). Eliminating unnecessary repetition: synonym usage; parallel structures instead of simple restatement; avoid stacking the same claims and, especially, in the exact same words.
NW: Proofreading (usually an aspect of editing, but also available to revision); considering how elements compare and contrast in the depth of ideas and organization; considering audience reception; make sure to be honest with actual production; confirm that what is actually said; evaluate different strategies of reformation.
HSM: Sentence writing to best express the idea clearly.
(MR. BALL TRICKs: 1. Read your paper backwards sentence-by-sentence from the end to the beginning to chart the flow of ideas. 2. Read your paper aloud and listen to what you actually wrote.)
Grammar Presentation: Freedom Riders: Logical and Rhetorical Forms
