A Semester of Transformation: Reflective Journey and Insights on Writing Progress, Challenges, and Achievements in Composition II

• Reflective Journey: Analyzing Growth and Development in Composition II
• From Novice to Scholar: My Evolution in Writing and Research
• A Semester of Transformation: Reflections on Writing and Research Skills
• My Composition II Experience: Growth, Challenges, and Achievements
• Writing Progress Reflections: Insights and Learnings from Composition II

Overview
For your final exam for Composition II, you are going to reflect on what you have learned by going through the process of creating a researched argument essay. You have been involved in writing about research (critical analysis, annotated bibliography, and an argument based on research). This final essay to is a reflection in which you think critically about your performance in the course and your growth as a writer and researcher over the course of the semester.

Format

This assignment should be typed according to MLA style guidelines and should be 3-4 pages in length (between 750 and 1000 words). No Works Cited page is required for this assignment. For more information regarding MLA style conventions, refer to A Writer’s Reference or refer to the resources provided in Canvas.

While Standard Written English (SWE) is not the only language appropriate for this assignment, it is expected that the writer [you] will follow the conventions of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation for titles and other standard labels for texts. Ultimately, this assignment should reflect YOUR voice and be representative of your own writing style.

Questions to Consider (Please address the following in your essay.)
1. What is something you wish we had spent more time on?
2. How would you classify your ability to write at the beginning of the semester? Do you feel that you were more of a critical [scholarly] writer, a creative writer, or not a writer at all? How would you classify your ability to write at the end of the semester? What would you attribute as the cause for the change in your writing?
3. How would you classify your skills at the beginning of the course when it came to writing and knowing how to use different genres in your writing (narrative, comparison/contrast, making an argument, analyzing the rhetoric of an argument)? How would you classify your skills at the end of the course when it comes to the same?
4. Which writing tasks did you feel were the most beneficial to you and to developing your skills as a writer over the course of the semester? Please explain. [This is not to evaluate the writing tasks, per se; it is simply for you to decide which tasks were the most beneficial to you as a student-writer. This includes prewriting activities, note taking tools, outlines, source dialogues, research days, peer review, etc.]
5. What did you find to be most (or least) beneficial when it came to peer review? What do you wish your peers provided that was missing?
6. What do you feel the final project (Project 3) demonstrates about your strengths or growth as a writer?

Before you have written your essay, read the honor statement below. You will attach this statement with your typed name to the end of your essay. This “signature” is included in addition to the header at the top of your document. To attach the statement, copy the text below, paste into your document and fill in the required information.