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Purposes for writing self-assessment
1. To write a reflection on what you’ve learned this term about writing and
reading. This reflection will help you articulate your own learning and be your final exam grade.
2. To prepare you for the self-assessment in ENGL1202.
Preparing for the self-assessment
Choose at least two essays that you can reflect on to write most powerfully about your
development as a reader and writer this term. One of them should show your
ability to cite sources and integrate them effectively into your argument in a
4-6 page
essay. To write the self-assessment, you
will want to be aware of the primary goals of ENGL1201. The
Outcomes Statements for First-Year Writing
is a set of eleven statements that express what we expect you to have
accomplished by the end of your first-year writing experience. Some of the
statements apply only to ENGL1202 (focus on literature). Also, you might find it useful to examine a
sample student self-assessment.
To prepare to write the self-assessment in advance, review all your writing,
taking notes on places you noticed that you've learned something or still
struggle. You may bring to class your notes and the excerpts from your
writing that you plan to cite.
How to write the self-assessment
Write a self-assessment
of your development as a writer and reader over the term. The self-assessment should be a personal essay that focuses on a thesis about
your growth as a writer in ENGL1201, documenting your claims based on the
outcomes statements and referring to
essays. Since you will not be including previous drafts with your
self-assessment, it will be especially important that you cite specific instances
from early and final drafts in your self-assessment to demonstrate what revision
means to you (see sample student self-assessment above). You may discuss writing besides that which you have included in
your e-portfolio.. Good self-assessments are honest
self-assessments. We're not looking for you to prove that you're a perfect
writer, just that you understand what you're good and not-so-good at and
what processes you use to produce your best writing. It will be hard to
write a substantive self-assessment in less than three pages.
The
self-assessment may be administered as a take-home or a partial take-home
(prepared in advance but written during the final exam time). Follow your
instructor's directions for how to submit your self-assessment to him/her
directly.
How to submit your self-assessment and best essay from 1201 for future use in
1201
To prepare for the final exam in ENGL1202, you'll need to access your
self-assessment for 1201 and your best essay from 1201. Follow directions in the
first several slides of the linked
PowerPoint presentation
to put your best essay and your self-assessment into the Content System (not
necessary if you know how to use My Content in Blackboard).
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