Reflection Paper #2
SLOs, or Student Learning Outcomes, are one of the main focuses of our English 1120 curriculum this semester. In this paper, I will reflect on 2 SLOs based on what I learned and experienced while writing my expository essay. I will focus on SLO C: writing as a process and SLO F: Research.
SLO C: Writing as a process focuses on the overall process that I, the author of the paper, followed in order for the final draft to turn out the way it did. The first thing I did was look into my subject of choice, AI’s effect on education. During this process, I found 4 reliable sources of information that I could use to strengthen my paper. These 4 sources aren’t the only options I explored; however, they were the 4 strongest. After I had sufficient information on my subject and some reliable sources, I wrote a rough draft. This draft consisted mainly of a brain dump. Just putting whatever comes to mind on paper. After this, I did a loose edit of the draft and passed it to a friend for a peer review. Once I received the feedback, I went into writing the final draft. The culmination of all these steps is how my final came to be.
SLO F: Research focuses on the information I used to back up my claims within the expository essay. The research I used came from 4 different reliable sites that each had their focus, some overlapping. I found it important for there to be a source with a more general description of AI’s effects and a more related source with information on AI’s effects in education. This provided me with sources from multiple perspectives, allowing me to negate as much bias as possible. I found sources that seemed to lack any blatant bias, and I'm sure my paper turned out better because of this.
The student learning outcomes are a main focus of the English 1120 class. They carry the objective of making students look back on a semester or assignment and think about what they truly learned. In this reflection, I focused on SLO C and SLO F, which both played a very important role in the expository essay.