Connecting the Course Outcomes in Your Reflections

I would also like everyone to refocus their various reflection assignments a bit more. Take a moment and read the assignment prompt for writing project #4. Hopefully you’ll now realize that all the reflection assignments are homework that will help build your draft for wp#4. However, for the reflection assignments to be useful towards wp#4, you all need to spend a little bit more time on them. Specially, you need to look at the course competencies/outcomes (see below), and systematically think about how the work you read/did for that reflection helps you to gain more knowledge the competencies/outcomes. For example, generically any peer review session should help you gain skills for outcome #7 (using feedback). However, to really demonstrate that you’ve learned that skill, you will want to be able to point to a specific piece of feedback and a specific piece of writing you revised based on that feedback. Use the reflections to help track those details of learning. Refer to specific outcomes and specific pieces of reading/work that demonstrate your learning skills related to that outcome.

ENG102: Course Competencies/Outcomes

1. Write for specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience and writer, as well as the writing’s ethical, political, and cultural implications.

2. Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context.

3. Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics.

4. Find, evaluate, select, and synthesize both online and print sources that examine a topic from multiple perspectives.

5. Integrate sources through summarizing, paraphrasing, and quotation from sources to develop and support one’s own ideas.

6. Identify, select and use an appropriate documentation style to maintain academic integrity.

7. Use feedback obtained through peer review, instructor comments, and/or other sources to revise writing.

8. Assess one’s own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods.

9. Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies.