Self-Assessment Essay Assignment
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portfolio_self-assessment_essay_assignment.docxWriting Your Self-Assessment Essay
Your final essay for the course is one in which you will reflect on your work in English 1100. This will be an academic essay, as were each of your other final essays for the term. The Self-Assessment should be a polished piece of writing that tells me about your experience as a writer this semester.
The essay will be a self-evaluation of your work, and as you know, an evaluation must be accurate to be useful. This is not a chance to re-write the events of the term to make them look different than they actually were. You'll be graded on the accuracy of your assessment, so be honest, be specific, and be thorough.
Among other things, tell your readers what you learned about yourself as a writer, and what challenges you faced on each assignment. Describe the process each paper went through from invention through final draft.
Read the rubric carefully. Before beginning the essay, answer every question on the rubric with regard to your work this term.
You should consider the rubric to be a complete description of the assignment, so your essay should provide everything spelled out in the rubric. That should result in a coherent academic essay, complete with a thesis that states how well you think you did overall in the course, a body of evidence that supports that main claim, and a conclusion that wraps it all up.
Note that the rubric requires you to use evidence from your drafts to support every assertion you make. Provide that evidence by quoting and/or paraphrasing material you wrote in each of your other essays. Identify the sources of your quoted or paraphrased words by using signal phrases to introduce them. For example:
Do not include a Works Cited page at the end of your Self-Assessment essay. There is no need for it, since you will be referring to essays that you wrote for the class and that I have easy access to on Pilot.
The objective of this essay assignment is to reflect on your growth as a writer, student, and individual this semester, and to put into practice what you have learned by producing an articulate, organized, polished piece of writing that demonstrates your growth.
Your essay needs to be of a sufficient length to cover the criteria listed in the following rubric.
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ASSESS YOUR WRITING PROCESS ---What problems did you face as you wrote? --- Did you respond to, and solve, those problems? ---What kind of feedback did you receive on your draft(s) from classmates and/or your instructor? ---Did you incorporate the feedback when revising your paper? If so, why? If not, why not?
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ASSESS EACH PIECE OF WRITING IN THE PORTFOLIO --- Did the essay meet the requirements for the assignment? (Evaluate the essay using the grading rubric that goes with it) --- What, if anything, makes this piece good? --- What surprised you in this piece? --- What would you do differently if you had more time to revise?
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ASSESS THE PORTFOLIO AS A WHOLE --- What do you want your writing to say to others about you? What does your writing in this portfolio actually say about you? What are the differences? Discuss how the writing you did in this course fits into your overall development as a writer over time: --- How is your writing now similar to writing you’ve done in the past? How does it differ?
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ASSESS YOUR PERFORMANCE AS A STUDENT --- How well did you budget your time for required work? --- How energetically did you go about doing the work of this class, as a writer and as a student? Did you complete all activities? If not, why not? If so, why? --- How has doing, or not doing, the assignments benefited you? --- How did your work habits affect the portfolio's contents?
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KEY FEATURES Include an introduction with a thesis, a body of evidence that supports your thesis, and a conclusion. The essay's thesis, evidence and conclusion must address and answer the following main questions: --- How well do you believe you did in this course? --- Did you achieve what you set out to achieve? As always, the essay must follow MLA guidelines and be relatively free of grammar/spelling errors. |
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Adapted from an assignment by Chuck Holmes
