OP-ED Decompression assignment
Kanieshamm
ENG330Op-edreflection.docx1. What did thinking about the essentials and possibles do for your understanding of writing for a specific task/purpose? Will this information transfer to other writing situations? In what ways can you see yourself using this concept in the future?
2. Describe your process in composing and revising your list essay, from essentials/possibles and close reading/analysis of mentor texts/models to drafting and revision. How was your process on this assignment similar to and/or different from your process for other/previous writing assignments? Do you see your processes changing over time? What is causing the change or lack of change?
3. Do you use the feedback you receive on other projects to grow as you work on new projects? How?
4. What did you learn during this project about your writing? What did you learn about yourself? What worked well (and not so well) for you? Do you see yourself growing in your writing, reading, thinking, and communicating? How? In what ways?
5. What are you most proud of about this paper? Can you point to a specific sentence or passage in your essay? Or was there a particular moment or breakthrough during your writing process that stands out? If so, what do you think helped that to occur?
6. What aspects of your final draft are you concerned about? What type of feedback from me would be most helpful? What, from me, would help more during your writing process?
7. On our syllabus, there is a list of student learning outcomes, or goals, for the course. This project was designed to address several of those outcomes. You’ve responded to these questions before, but I want to see where your thinking is now after you’ve done three projects.
See that writing is a form of social interaction. (Note: we did not use a discussion board to revise; how would this project been seen as a form of social interaction—think audience)
Use writing to critically explore, explain, evaluate, and reflect on your experiences and on those of others.
Examine the rhetoric, discourse, and modes of communication in the professional sphere.
8. Any additional comments or questions?
1.
What did thinking about the essentials and possibles do for your understanding of
writing for a specific task/purpose? Will this information transfer to other writing
situations?
In what ways can you see yourself using this concept in the future?
2.
Descri
be your process in composing and revising your list essay, from
essentials/possibles and close reading/analysis of mentor texts/models to drafting and
revision. How was your process on this assignment similar to and/or different from your
process for other
/previous writing assignments?
Do you see your processes changing
over time?
What is causing the change or lack of change?
3.
Do you use the feedback you receive on other projects to grow as you work on new
projects? How?
4.
What did you learn during this
project about your writing? What did you learn about
yourself?
What worked well (and not so well) for you? Do you see yourself growing in
your writing, reading, thinking, and communicating?
How?
In what ways?
5.
What are you most proud of about this pa
per? Can you point to a specific sentence or
passage in your essay?
Or was there a particular moment or breakthrough during your
writing process that stands out?
If so, what do you think helped that to occur?
6.
What aspects of your final draft are you concerned about? What type of feedback from
me would be most helpful?
What, from me, would help more during your writing
process?
7.
On our syllabus, there is a list of student learning outcomes, or goals, for the c
ourse.
This project was designed to address several of those outcomes.
You’ve responded to
these questions before, but I want to see where your thinking is now after you’ve done
three projects.
1. What did thinking about the essentials and possibles do for your understanding of
writing for a specific task/purpose? Will this information transfer to other writing
situations? In what ways can you see yourself using this concept in the future?
2. Describe your process in composing and revising your list essay, from
essentials/possibles and close reading/analysis of mentor texts/models to drafting and
revision. How was your process on this assignment similar to and/or different from your
process for other/previous writing assignments? Do you see your processes changing
over time? What is causing the change or lack of change?
3. Do you use the feedback you receive on other projects to grow as you work on new
projects? How?
4. What did you learn during this project about your writing? What did you learn about
yourself? What worked well (and not so well) for you? Do you see yourself growing in
your writing, reading, thinking, and communicating? How? In what ways?
5. What are you most proud of about this paper? Can you point to a specific sentence or
passage in your essay? Or was there a particular moment or breakthrough during your
writing process that stands out? If so, what do you think helped that to occur?
6. What aspects of your final draft are you concerned about? What type of feedback from
me would be most helpful? What, from me, would help more during your writing
process?
7. On our syllabus, there is a list of student learning outcomes, or goals, for the course.
This project was designed to address several of those outcomes. You’ve responded to
these questions before, but I want to see where your thinking is now after you’ve done
three projects.
