Do Reflective Essay
End-of-Course Reflective Essay
As another semester comes to an end, it's a good time to reflect on your experiences and your learning. For this assignment, you will write a 3-page (double-spaced) essay about your learning in this class. This essay counts as 10% of your semester average, so please make sure that you follow all the instructions and review both the Grading Rubric and Formatting Instructions located in the sidebar to the right of this page. The Reflective Essay is due by the end of Module 16.
The reflective essay assignment is an intellectual activity whereby you review in detail what you've read, learned, observed, felt, or experienced during the course, and then you draw some conclusions about the significance of those experiences in relation to the context of your life as a whole.
Choose 2 or 3 of the prompts below and write a 3-page essay. Your essay should include an introduction, body paragraphs (2 or 3), and conclusion. The essay must follow the manuscript form guidelines stated in the sidebar to the left of this page. While you are not required to embed textual quotes from works studied, you certainly may. Either way, you should include very specific references as you respond to the selected prompts.
Essay Prompts:
1) How much did you know about early American literature when you started the course? Describe a few key things that you've learned through your reading this semester.
2)What did you enjoy most about this course and what would you rather forget? What advice would you give a student who has decided to enroll in this online ENGL 2327 course? What advice would you give yourself as you take on other courses?
3) Discuss how an author or work from this course "opened your eyes" to unfamiliar aspects of the world around you. Did this author change your perspective in some significant way?
4) Discuss how an aspect(s) of this course connected other aspects of your life.
5) Examine the relationship between this course and your desired career path, by considering issues such as responsibility, communication, and knowledge and skills. Explain in what ways you hope your education will enhance your job performance.
6) What "life skill" did you develop and/or improve on during this course: research, time-management, using technology, reading comprehension, written communication, etc.
7) Discuss how aspects of this course may have altered your view of your role as a member of society or a member of a particular community.
8) Which author did you connect with the most? Why?
9) Since this is a survey course, we were unable to read any author in great depth. Which author do you think you might read more of on your own?
10) Which author did you find most difficult? What about the writing style or subject matter caused you difficulty? What's the best advice you would give someone who is facing difficult course content - especially in an online class?