Important requirements:
Submit as a link from your e-portfolio home page.
Give it a title that captures something essential about the essay.
Write 3.5 to 5 pages.
Quote (correctly)from your own work, from lecture, and from the readings.
Use MLA style for citations (even of your own work) and include a Works Cited list.
What to Do:
Write an introduction to the work you will submit in your e-portfolio. This will be a whole-term reflective essay in which you answer the following questions:
ÒHow much and in what ways have I grown as a writer this semester? An how does my work and performance this semester demonstrate this growth?Ó
Your answer to the central questions of the assignment will become your thesis, consisting of a claim and and a summary of your support for that claim.
While you may discuss ways in which I or the lessons of the course have helped you, this should not be a course evaluation (or a teacher review) but an evaluation of your own work and your own performance in the course. It should present a portrait of YOU as a writer, reader, student, and thinker.
More specifically, please discuss (and provide specific evidence for) how you have grown in your ability to:
SLO 1:
Use effective reading strategies (main point and supporting points) to comprehend a
variety of texts.
SLO 2:
Write expository essays unified around a clear thesis statement.
SLO 3:
Develop essays using specific details drawn from assigned texts as well as personal
experience and knowledge.
SLO 4:
Write fluent, clearly focused, complex sentences.
SLO 5:
Proofread effectively for basic grammar and usage errors.
Draw support for your thesis from specific evidence gathered from:
- your own written work,
- specific revisions you have made,
- the lessons youÕve learned in class and in the lab,
- and your memory of your performance and time management in class over the past 18 weeks.
In this essay, you will:
- assess your development as a writer using specific examples (including quotations)
- assess your development as a reader using specific examples,
- assess (based on your Attention Pie Chart) how well youÕve managed your life as a student this term
- discuss in what specific areas you still need to improve,
- and, OF COURSE, use the full 12-Step Program, assert a strong thesis, write an effective introduction, use PIE paragraphs, organize your essay logically, quote correctly, avoid sentence errors, and use clear prose. If you do these things effectively, you are in effect showing the audience you are ready for 100!
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