Assignment Introduction
The Self-Assessment Essay is a kind of research paper. Your development as a writer is the subject and your work this semester is your evidence. Your task is to show, with claims and evidence, how you’ve developed as a writer and thinker this semester. Your claims will be statements about what you’ve learned. Your evidence may come in the form of a quote or screenshot of your work or through your retelling of a central learning moment. Your cover letters, homework assignments, and in-class reflections should serve as valuable pieces of evidence and provide you with quote-worthy passages. And you should include in your Portfolio any relevant items that you reference in your Self-Assessment Essay.
Assignment Details
The Self-Assessment Essay answers the question, “To what extent have I achieved the course learning outcomes this semester?” Specifically, your essay should quote and respond to the five course learning outcomes below:
- Examine how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users.
- Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
- Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
- Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
- Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
Assessment Rubric
- How effectively does your Final-Assessment Essay:
- make claims about what course learning outcomes you achieved this semester
- identify (if relevant) any areas in which you have not progressed (e.g., because we didn’t spend enough time with them or you feel that you had a strong start in those areas)
- quote and address all of the course learning objectives (even those that you feel we did not spend enough time working on)
- provide evidence (in the form of quoting your own writing and/or retelling specific learning moments) to show how you have achieved our learning outcomes and developed as a writer?
- Revision
- How effectively and sufficiently have your Phase 1, 2, and 3 assignments been revised and edited?
- General Requirements
- Were all general requirements for length, source use, and due date met?
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