Course Outcomes
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
- Discuss stylistically appropriate writing strategies for various audiences, subjects, and purposes
- Interpret the writing process as a means for generating ideas, drafting, and revising for improving the quality and effectiveness of one’s own writing
Overview
In this assignment, you will review some of the valuable writing skills you have learned in the course. You will also be asked to consider how you might take those skills forward into future writing situations.
Directions
For this reflection assignment, you will consider the choices you made about your approach to writing based on your understanding of revision and the feedback provided by your instructor. Address the criteria below in complete paragraphs. Start each paragraph with a main idea and support it with detail. Ensure that you proofread your final draft and correct any errors you may find. This assignment will be submitted in Brightspace.
Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed.
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Feedback and Revision Reflection: Use this reflection to look back on the work you have done and the feedback you have been given throughout this course. Think about how you might use what you have learned when writing in the future.
- Think about your experiences with revision in this course. What approaches to revision worked well for you?
- What revision strategy will you take with you to your next course? Explain your reasoning.
- How did the feedback you were given influence the way you will approach the writing process in the future?
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Audience: Use this part of your reflection to consider how you might apply what you have learned about writing to an audience in the future.
- What choices did you make to your writing to speak to your audience in your essay?
- What potential audiences do you think you will be writing for in the future?
- What questions will you ask about your audiences in the future to help you connect your writing with them?
What to Submit
Submit your project as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. If sources are used, follow APA or MLA citation guidelines when citing sources both throughout and at the end of your paper. While you will not be graded on the quality of your citations in this assignment, you may receive guidance from your instructor on how to properly cite sources.
| Criteria | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (85%) | Needs Improvement (55%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feedback and Revision Reflection: Approaches to Revision | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%) | Describes approaches to revision that worked well in writing an essay or other course assignments (85%) | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include clearer or more personal examples (55%) | Does not attempt criterion (0%) | 15 |
| Feedback and Revision Reflection: Revision Strategy | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%) | Discusses a revision strategy that will be brought forward to the next course and why it will be useful there (85%) | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a clearer explanation of how a revision strategy will be used in the future (55%) | Does not attempt criterion (0%) | 15 |
| Feedback and Revision Reflection: Influence | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%) | Explains how feedback received will influence future approaches to the writing process (85%) | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a clearer understanding of how feedback will help with future writing (55%) | Does not attempt criterion (0%) | 15 |
| Audience: Choices | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%) | Identifies choices that were made to target writing to the audience (85%) | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include specifically identifying why choices were made for this audience (55%) | Does not attempt criterion (0%) | 15 |
| Audience: Potential Audience | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%) | Identifies potential audiences for future writing (85%) | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing relevant or realistic examples of future audiences (55%) | Does not attempt criterion (0%) | 15 |
| Audience: Questions | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%) | Identifies questions that may be asked about an audience to help connect them to writing (85%) | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying questions that have a clear intent of connecting writing with the audience (55%) | Does not attempt criterion (0%) | 15 |
| Articulation of Response | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner (100%) | Clearly conveys meaning with grammatical choices, sentence structure, and spelling that demonstrate an understanding of audience and purpose (85%) | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with inconsistencies in grammatical conventions, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability (55%) | The submission has critical inconsistencies in grammatical conventions, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas (0%) | 10 |
| Total: | 100% | ||||
