Prompts to choose from:- Explain one or two ways my writing has improved (or not).
Include a few examples from my posts over time, with analysis and links to the original posts, to
illustrate how the improvement(s) happened.
- Choose one post. (My favorite? My least favorite? The one that surprises me the most when I reread it?) Analyze it
in detail. Explain the "behind-the-scenes" of how it was written, what it truly means, where its inspiration came from, etc.
- Explain one or two ways audience
feedback helped me grow over the semester. This doesn't have to be stuff Sutherland said; If people wrote response posts about my writing, what did I learn from their reactions?
- In what ways do writing response posts to classmates' blogs help me become a better writer, reader, or thinker? Are there other ways in which my classmates' blogs help me learn?
- What's my usual revision/editing process? How do I go from rough to final draft?
- In what way(s) have I
surprised myself this semester on my blog? Have I tried topics I didn't think I'd write about? Approached a familiar topic from an
unfamiliar angle? Discovered more "depth" to a topic than I first
thought was possible? Explain.
- What have I learned from my struggles with writer's block? Why do I tend to get stuck? How
do I tend to get unstuck? Notice any patterns?
- How do I like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way I write, the way I think, or the way I think about writing?
- Has blogging had any other effects on my life beyond strictly my "school life"? Explain.
- Where do I get my ideas for blog post topics? What inspires me to write?
- How is the open-ended writing I do on my blog different from the more structured academic assignments I write?
Requirements:
Prompts & Length
- You can choose 1-3 questions to answer.
- Each prompt you choose should be answered with at least 300 words.
- Combine them into one post of at least 1,000 words.
Evidence
- Include links to the posts you write about in your final, so readers can take a "guided tour" of your work.
- Quote yourself, just like you would quote any other author whose work you are analyzing.
Intro & Conclusion
- Your introduction should provide a quick summary of the topics you've been blogging about.
- Take key words and phrases from the prompt(s) you choose to write about and use them to create a thesis statement about the types of reflection/analysis you'll be doing.
- Your conclusion should focus on what your writing goals are for the next quarter, and why.
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