This reflection paper (minimum 600 words, submitted via email) gives you an opportunity to reflect on the work you have done this semester, to assess and evaluate your learning and development, and to think about ways you can continue to improve throughout the rest of the semester.
Before you begin writing the reflection, collect all the work you have completed for our class this semester, including all writing assignments and anything you have written during our in-class activities. Review this work to get a sense for how you have done this semester, where your work has been most and least successful, what you have learned, and how you have progressed.
When you write the Midterm Reflection, your thinking should address the following prompts. Be sure to include specific examples and make direct reference to experiences you had with our writing assignments, readings, and in-class discussions and activities:
- How would you describe the efforts you have made this semester? Consider both the amount of effort you put into your work and how productive and effective this effort was. How much time did you spend on different aspects of the writing process – reading, researching, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, etc.? Which efforts felt most productive and effective? Least so?
- How would you describe the quality of your work? Compared to work you have done in other classes and on other writing assignments, has your work this semester been excellent, good, average, or poor? How so? Where has your work been most successful? Least successful?
- How would you describe your participation in class conversations and activities? Which conversations and activities have you found most beneficial? What did you learn from or get out of our in-class activities?
- How would you describe your learning during the first half of the semester? It would help to make reference to the dimensions of learning from the Learning Record.
- Confidence and Independence
- Skills and Strategies
- Knowledge and Understanding
- Use of Prior and Emerging Experience
- Reflection
- Creativity, Originality, Imagination
- What can you do to improve going forward?
Matt King 