This morning in class, you will plan and compose a reflective essay that documents your writing process and includes at least one relevant quotation from Writing Analytically or one of the articles included in your bibliography. You will introduce your quotation with a signal phrase, follow it with a parenthetical citation (unless the source is nonprint), and append a work cited entry at the end of your essay.
Before class, be sure to carefully review the section of yesterday’s post devoted to preparing, to ensure that you will be able to comply with all the assignment’s guidelines. Your reflection by itself will not be assigned a grade, but a reflective essay that doesn’t comply with the guidelines will lower the grade for your final essay and annotated bibliography.
Questions to Consider in Your Reflection
- When you began transferring the words from your handwritten annotations onto the screen of your laptop or tablet, what did you observe about the process?
- What aspect of the writing seemed the most challenging? Locating relevant sources? Composing your annotations? Developing the final essay? Why did that aspect seem the most challenging?
- Did your subject change? If so, what was your original subject, and why did you change it?
- What do you consider the strongest element of your final essay and annotated bibliography?
- At what point in the process did you decide on a title? Did you change the title during the writing process? If so, what was the original title?
- What image that documents part of your writing process away from the screen did you include in your blog post? Why did you choose that particular image?
- What relevant website did you include an embedded link to?
Next Up
Wordplay Day! To prepare for class, revisit the Dictionary and World Builder pages on the Scrabble website, or the Merriam-Webster Scrabble Word Finder page, and review the blog posts devoted to Scrabble tips.
Jane Lucas 