English 103 Writing Portfolio and Reflective Analysis Assignment

English 103 Writing Portfolio and Reflective Analysis Assignment

Your Reflective Analysis should accomplish four tasks:

It should make an argument about your writing development. Read the FWP Outcomes and choose ONE of the Outcomes as the focus for your argument. You have lots of options here.

It should use pieces of your own writing as evidence for your argument. Specifically, you should integrate the following compositions as sources in your analysis:

1 major project from 101

1 major project from 102

1 major project from 103

2 informal compositions from 101, 102, or 103

Any other supporting compositions you would like to use

It should do “meta-analysis” of those artifacts as it makes its argument. “Meta-analysis” is your examination of your own work, your writing-about-your-writing.

It should be directed to a specific audience: Professional employer, friend, teacher, parent or guardian, future child, yourself…you choose.

Citing Your Own Writing:

In your Reflective Analysis, you should, of course, provide proper in-text citation of your sources, just as you would with any other source in a composition. In this case, however, your sources are your own compositions; so, you’ll be citing yourself. Here is an example:

In my second project for English 101, I discuss the impact of drafting on my writing development: “I have always drafted because I have been required to. But I really wanted to reflect analytically on how the process of drafting actually impacted my overall writing development. Was I becoming a ‘better’ writer?” (“Drafting and Development” 1).

Additionally, you should include full citations in a Works Cited. Here’s how: 

Works Cited

Last name, First name. “Title of Project.” Course Title. Professor ______ _______. Department,

Institution. Date project was submitted. Form of Media (Print, Web, etc.).

---. “Title of Project.” Course Title. Professor ______ _______. Department,

Institution. Date project was submitted. Form of Media (Print, Web, etc.).