What have you learned as a critical reader and writer in this course? How have you changed, grown, or evolved as a communicator? Where will your writing take you next?

Assignment Question

Over the past weeks you have engaged a variety of art forms and works, composed both informal and formal literary analyses, and talked with one another about your ideas. You have been immersed! This last essay is a reflection on your growth as a writer and thinker. The texts you will analyze, this time, are the ones you have written. Your subject is yourself.

Directions: Review your papers and journal entries. It might help to print out these documents so you can read them with some slight detachment. Read them slowly, and feel free to annotate them, revise them, or just comment on them as you would another’s writing.

Focus Questions: What have you learned as a critical reader and writer in this course? How have you changed, grown, or evolved as a communicator? Where will your writing take you next?

Task: Use these questions and your own reflections to compose a self-assessment as a writer (yes, a WRITER).

Requirements: Compose an essay of at least five paragraphs (1000 words or more), using all of the elements of the academic essay that we have been practicing. Your thesis will assert what you know, think, or feel inspired by and why. Your body paragraphs will demonstrate and develop this thesis using concrete examples for your own writing and experience, and perhaps also from the works you have read or watched. Your conclusion paragraph will convey the significance or upshot of this experience, so save the best for last. Notes: There is no draft submission for this paper, but you are welcome to work with classmates on your drafts. I will let you decide about that. Since this is a personal paper, please use the personal pronoun. It only makes sense here. _________________________________________________________________________________________ During this semester, I learned about poems and poetry. I also watched the movie “Down By Law” and “Paterson”. The biggest chapter in this class is M Train. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Make the self-assessment based on my experience in creating essays about watching movies and reading the book. Most importantly, make the wording that mostly focuses on the rubric rather than using an advance English level.