ENGL 150 Reflective Argument
3 – 4 pages (minimum: 750 words)
Final Exam
To complete this exam, you’ll choose papers or assigned writing you’ve completed for this course and create a reflective argument. Find examples in your writing that help you describe how you accomplished or are still working on accomplishing the outcomes of the course. Your goal in this exam is to demonstrate: how your skills have developed, what remains to be developed, and how you’ll use the skills and knowledge gained in this course in other writing situations.
The format of your argument
Begin your argument (and you might construct this last) with: an explanation of your experience this semester in learning how to write for university coursework and a clear thesis about your development as a writer. This is not about the instructor; this is about you as a writer and a student.
The body of your argument should emphasize an accurate assessment of your growth and skills rather than to show only your strengths.
Include clear and insightful claims that demonstrate to what extent you’ve fulfilled each of the learning outcomes for the course. Those outcomes are for students to:
A strong conclusion will not just re-state the intro. It will leave the reader with an understanding of what you’ve learned and are working on as a growing college writer entering your next set of classes.
3 – 4 pages (minimum: 750 words)
Final Exam
To complete this exam, you’ll choose papers or assigned writing you’ve completed for this course and create a reflective argument. Find examples in your writing that help you describe how you accomplished or are still working on accomplishing the outcomes of the course. Your goal in this exam is to demonstrate: how your skills have developed, what remains to be developed, and how you’ll use the skills and knowledge gained in this course in other writing situations.
The format of your argument
Begin your argument (and you might construct this last) with: an explanation of your experience this semester in learning how to write for university coursework and a clear thesis about your development as a writer. This is not about the instructor; this is about you as a writer and a student.
The body of your argument should emphasize an accurate assessment of your growth and skills rather than to show only your strengths.
Include clear and insightful claims that demonstrate to what extent you’ve fulfilled each of the learning outcomes for the course. Those outcomes are for students to:
- Understand the differences that audience, purpose, and context produce for researched academic writing.
- Integrate primary/secondary source materials in specific writing tasks.
- Produce writing that adheres to citation guidelines fitting a specific discipline.
- Produce clear prose in Edited American English.
- Name or describe what you learned or tried to learn in the outcome.
- Show proof of your claims with descriptions of the research and/or writing processes you have employed during this class and make direct references to written passages (either with quotations or clear paraphrasing) from your course writings. To cite your paper, you can name the paper in your sentence or use parenthesis to cite the title of the paper.
- Explain the significance of this learning as a writer in the university. You can consider demonstrating how you might use your writing skills and current knowledge of writing processes in other classes—either this semester, or with the courses you are signed up for next semester.
A strong conclusion will not just re-state the intro. It will leave the reader with an understanding of what you’ve learned and are working on as a growing college writer entering your next set of classes.