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Final Reflection Guide

The document provides instructions for students to write a final reflective statement for their portfolio in the class. It prompts students to examine how their writing has developed over the semester through class activities, assignments, and feedback. Students are asked to reflect on their understanding and demonstration of the five core values of the writing course, providing specific examples from their work. The document gives general questions to consider for each value and guidelines for formatting the reflective statement.

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Final Reflection Guide

The document provides instructions for students to write a final reflective statement for their portfolio in the class. It prompts students to examine how their writing has developed over the semester through class activities, assignments, and feedback. Students are asked to reflect on their understanding and demonstration of the five core values of the writing course, providing specific examples from their work. The document gives general questions to consider for each value and guidelines for formatting the reflective statement.

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CCI: Final Reflection

Part of your Final Portfolio is a Reflective Statement in which you look back at the semester and
examine and evaluate your own growth as a writer. Use this worksheet to help you identify ways that
your class activities/discussions and the process of writing each essay or assignment have helped you
achieve the outcomes for this course. Explain how you have come to understand the meaning of each
Core Value and how you have demonstrated it in class activities/discussion or essay assignments. Use
concrete, specific examples from your assignments and/or class notes. It is not enough to write I
understand Core Value 1 because I revised my essays. Quote from your essays to show how and where
and why you made certain changes.

o General Questions
Include your answers to these questions under the appropriate Core Value section(s) in your final
reflection.
How has your understanding of reading and writing in college changed after Projects 1, 2, and 3?
What changes did you make to your essays across various drafts, and why?
What skills and strategies did you learn throughout the semester that were new to you?
Which ones were most and least helpful?
What activities during the semester were most and least helpful?
What assignments, comments, feedback, etc. did your professor provide that were most helpful?
What did your classmates do that was helpful? How could your classmates have been more
helpful?

o Core Value I. Understand that writing is a practice which involves a multi-stage, recursive and social
process.
What does this mean to you? How have you demonstrated this? Give examples When did you
demonstrate openness to others feedback on your essays? When did you use local and global
revision through multiple drafts? Did you know when you needed feedback, who to ask for feedback,
and what to ask?

o Core Value II. Understand that close and critical reading/analysis allows writers to understand how
and why texts create meaning.
What does this mean to you? How have you demonstrated this? How have you read texts closely?
Understood and critiqued the authors message? Use multiple sources to analyze an issue?
Synthesize ideas when they appear in multiple texts?

o Core Value III. Understand that writing is shaped by audience, purpose, and context.
How have you learned to adjust your writing knowing that you must adjust your message to meet
the needs of your audience? OR how did the authors/directors of your sources adjust their
writing/filmmaking to meet the needs of their audience? How have you demonstrated this? Do you
understand the concepts of the rhetorical (persuasive) situation? How have you analyzed the
persuasive quality of different sources such as digital, print, visual, multimedia? Demonstrated use of
text conventions such as grammar, mechanics, format, in-text citations, etc?
o Core Value IV. Understand the role of information literacy in the practice of writing.
How have you used different types of sources (print, online magazine, video essays, documentaries?
How did you know that these were reputable sources? How did you use documentation skills such as
signal phrases, in-text citations and bibliographies to demonstrate that you know how to utilize
different types of information?

o Core Value V. Understand the ethical dimensions of writing.


How have you shown awareness that issues are complex and have no easy answers? How did you
treat topics and different viewpoints with respect and responsibility? Justify your point of view? How
did you create a boundary between your voice and the voice of others? Can you demonstrate that
you know how to show where the ideas of the authors end and your ideas begin? How did you
observe and use the rules of academic honesty?

Nuts and Bolts

Title: You are welcome to title this piece Final Reflection or Reflective Statement, but if you can come up
with something more creative, go for it.
Length: 900-1200 words. 1-2 paragraphs per Core Value.
Formatting: All typed portions of your assignment should be in double spaced 12 point Times New
Roman. The document should have 1 inch margins. In the top left corner of the first page, include your
name, the name of the class, the professors name, and the date that the assignment is due. On
subsequent pages, your last name and the page number should appear in the header at the top right
corner of the page, also in 12 point Times New Roman.
They Say / I Say: If you use templates from They Say / I Say in your reflection, to make it clear where you
are using them, be sure to bold them. For example:

Sources: The Core Values of the First Year Writing Program and your essays are the only required
sources.
Citations: You need not use formal in-text citations for the Core Values or for your essays; just make
sure its clear what youre referring to when you refer to the Core Values or an essay.

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