Learning Journal: Skills for Success

Learning Journal: Skills for Success

Purpose: The Learning Journal helps you to reflect and deepen your understanding of the course material and of your experience with the content. It is an opportunity to communicate your thinking and learning process. Reflection requires you to think about how you are engaging with your work. Engaging in these practices is a process known as metacognition, which is an important part of becoming a competent critical thinker and a better writer.

Assignment: Your Learning Journal should be a substantial and thoughtful response to the prompt in roughly 150 to 200 words. Your ideas should be presented in a logical order. Although somewhat less formal than essays or other course writing assignments, learning journal entries should still construct a coherent narrative, use complete sentences, be grammatically correct, and be scholarly in tone. To complete this assignment

1. Create an MLA formatted document. 2. Draft your response. 3. Edit and revise. 4. Create a relevant and interesting title for your work. 5. Save file using a clear descriptor for file name. 6. Submit Learning Journal as file attachment.

Prompt: Now that you have reviewed course content in this module, identify and explain two strategies you will need to apply in order to succeed in ENC1101.

The Learning Journal requires students to  Adapt communication for tone, purpose, audience, and situation.  Use essential Standard American English conventions—including appropriate sentence

structure, grammar, and punctuation—and formal, academic composition style.  Use MLA style for document format.

Grading: Your learning journal will be graded on how well you develop and explain your ideas and positions in response to the prompt, as well as how you support your choices with relevant and specific evidence. Your submission will also be evaluated on the professional presentation of content with respect to spelling, grammar, and punctuation.