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Please place your FIRST NAME in the title of each entry. In each journal reflection posting, try to answer the following thoughtfully & thoroughly:

· Briefly describe the labor that you have expended in the most recent week. How much time have you spent completing the assignments that you’ve chosen? What have you learned about yourself as a writer? Under what conditions (i.e., your surroundings) do you do your best work? What are some obstacles or challenges that may prevent you from completing your labor? What do you seem to be spending the most time doing in this course?

· Try gauging the following three characteristics of your labor on a scale of 1-4 (1=low level; 2=moderate level; 3=high level; 4=extreme level) and then describe WHY you chose that level:

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1. Scope  of your labor (Rate from 1 to 4) — Why did you choose your rating level? How much labor have you produced? This could be described in the amount of time spent in labor, the number of words written, or the number of products produced.

2. Intensity/Engagement  while you labor (Rate from 1 to 4) — Why did you choose your rating level? Does the intensity of your labor equal the product that you desired? In academic circles, intensity can be described as rigor, a word that has overtones of being stiff or unwilling to bend (as in only one way to view “quality” or a “standard” of correctness). In our labor-based course, my judgment or the “quality” of your writing is not the rigor we’re talking about. Instead, rigor is about  YOU , the way you labor and the motivations or goals that keep you laboring. How engaged have you been in your labor? How intense was the labor you expended? What made you want to labor?

3. Meaning  produced from your labor (Rate from 1 to 4) — Why did you choose your rating level? What have you learned about yourself as you labored? What has it been like to be in control of your learning? What are your personal goals that keep you laboring? Describe your progress as a writer — what do you like about a focus on labor rather than one on grades/points? What do you miss about grades?