P3 Reflective Analysis
P3 Reflective Analysis – These are the prompts you’ll use in the Project 3 Essay.
In this Reflective Analysis, you should discuss and support your ideas about the writing knowledge as well as the practices of writing you developed in this class. Specifically, use the prompts below to organize your thinking in two areas equally: your knowledge of the rhetorical concepts in writing we discussed (audience, purpose, rhetorical situation, etc.) and your knowledge about the practices of writing (drafting and revision, integration of sources, analysis of research and interpretation of information, etc.) developed in this course. What would you say is most important for students to consider in order to write effectively?
- Which concepts of writing will you think about when you’re getting ready to write in future writing situations — whether for college, a workplace, or writing in everyday life?
- Which three concepts of writing do you think will be most important to understand the writing in your discipline or major, or your career once you get there?
- Explain the connection between genre and audience when we’re writing.
- How does the connection between audience and genre also relate to purpose and context when writing?
- Why do you think it might be important for a writer like yourself to understand these rhetorical concepts and in what kinds of situations would it help you to know these concepts? Please give an example from the course.
- What was most significant or surprising to you when moving from researching and writing about your topic to analyzing the writing done in your discipline? Did you notice any similarities or differences across those contexts?
- How do you see yourself as a writer at this point? How does it compare to how you saw yourself as a writer at the beginning of this class? What is the most important insight about yourself as a writer you take with you from this class?
- What do you still have to learn, if there’s one thing you can focus on in your writing? What can you do to keep improving at it?
- Reflecting on the writing you’ve done over this semester, what are three different things that stand out about what you learned, or about writing you produced? Of those three things, which are your key take-aways from this class? What is one thing you know you have mastered or improved on in your writing?
- What would you tell someone just starting out in this class? What would be your advice about what’s most important to learn about writing generally or about themselves as writers?
