Reflective Essay (2-4 pages double spaced)

Submit a reflective essay that analyzes the writing processes you used to compose the first and final revised drafts of your narrative essay and your persuasive essay. The final essay should reflect on your understanding of the writing process and cite examples of from your work in ENG 122—drafts of essays, journals, discussion posts—to explain how your writing process has evolved as a result of the course and how you expect to use the writing process in your future studies. It must be 2–4 pages long (not including a cover page or a list of sources), double-spaced, use 12-point New Times Roman font, with standard one-inch margins, and follow MLA or APA conventions. Your Reflection Paper should address the following questions for each of the three issues you chose: 1. What did you find new and interesting or thought provoking in the information presented? 2. What troubled you most in the information presented? Discuss the emotional and cognitive responses you experienced. 3. Where you find information difficult to accept or understand, what theories does the text provide to aid in understanding the difficult or unacceptable information? ENG 122: Final Project Guidelines and Rubric Overview The final project for this course is to compose a reflective essay in which you assess your experiences with the writing process. The project asks students to discuss how their awareness of the process changed during the course and how their skill with using the process evolved as a result of the course. To illustrate the points in the final essay, you should use examples from the journals and essays that you composed earlier in the course. The project follows from work on four milestones—two first drafts of two essays and two revised final drafts of the two essays—which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three, Five, Six, and Seven. The final paper will be submitted in Module Eight. The essays provide important opportunities to engage in narrative and persuasive writing practices. Composing a first draft of each essay and revising it emphasizes the value of revision in the writing process. Journals in this course give students less formal experience with reflective and exploratory writing. The journals and the drafts of the essays help students to develop skills in generating ideas, using supporting evidence, and reaching conclusions in order to apply these components in their writing. The final project requires students to assess their experiences through a formal reflective essay. In this assignment, students will demonstrate their mastery of the following course outcomes: ? Produce writing whose form, organization, syntax, diction, style, and tone are appropriate for a given audience, subject, and purpose ? Read critically with an eye toward identifying main ideas, supporting evidence, and conclusions in order to utilize these components in one’s own writing ? Analyze the process of writing as a means for generating ideas, drafting, and revising to improve the quality and effectiveness of one’s own writing ? Conduct effective research to qualify appropriate evidence for purposeful integration in one's own work ? Write informative introductions, coherent theses, well-developed, organized, and supported body paragraphs, and conclusions effective to one’s writing purpose The final essay should be at least two and no more than four pages long (not including a cover page or a list of sources), follow MLA or APA style, and cite at least three examples of language that the student-author composed earlier in the course. It should be a complete, polished text containing all of the critical elements listed in the Final Project Rubric, and it should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This essay will be graded using the Final Project Rubric.