Reflective Executive summary and revision for an argumentative essay

Project 4: Reflective Executive Summary and Portfolio  The final project is to compile a portfolio of your best work and a new paper that explains what you now understand about what writing is, what makes it good, and how your understandings have changed during this semester as well as showing that you have met the outcomes for the course. You are also required to include one revised major project that shows substantial development from the last time you turned it in, addressing feedback you received and incorporating new and improved elements. Your executive document should include: ❖ An introduction that brings up the topic of writing in an engaging way, explains what you

have come to know about writing and how you have come to know it through this course, and asserts that through your experiences you have been able to show that you have met the outcomes for the course.

❖ A section for each course outcome ❖ Evidence (quotes, summary of examples, etc.) from other documents in the portfolio that

demonstrate that you have met each of the outcomes. ❖ A conclusion that reflects on the progress you have made as well as addresses areas that you

feel you still need to learn more about, improve on, etc. For your portfolio, in addition to your executive document and substantial revision, you might include: ❖ Any or all major projects ❖ Writing projects from other courses ❖ Previous drafts of writing projects ❖ Other mediating writing used in the process of completing other projects ❖ Reading responses ❖ Reflections ❖ Any other writing you think helps you to show that you have met the course outcome. Course Outcomes: ❖ Understand writing and your experiences with it differently than when you began ❖ Understand how writing is a social interaction that varies among different social groups or

disciplines (writing ecologies). ❖ Understand how writing is shaped by typified (traditional, standardized, normalized)

expectations, forms (genres), and conventions that can be identified, analyzed, and used strategically.

❖ Develop strategies for transferring your writing skills to differing writing ecologies. ❖ Increase your ability to read rhetorical situations within writing ecologies and make

rhetorical choices consciously in your writing. ❖ Be a more reflective (mindful, self-aware, thoughtful) writer. ❖ Understand that successful writing emerges from substantial interactive and recursive

processes over time and improve your own process strategies.