Writing Project Reflection – due Friday at 11:59pm
Write a one-page reflection about your first three essays.
Task: Reread your Writing Project 1, Writing Project 2, and Writing Project 3. Using my feedback and your own self-assessment, reflect on these essays.
The reflection should:
Identify my main feedback across WP1, WP2, WP3.
Self assess your own writing and writing process: what is the main feedback you have for yourself?
Give an example from WP1, WP2, or WP3 that displays a major issue you would like to work on. In the reflection, you can quote yourself or summarize your work, depending on the issue.
How can you apply the feedback and your own self-assessment?
feedback from professors-
WP1 -Your essay has a lot of potential. Some of the examples you discussed about high school made great points about the connection and disconnection caused by relationships being mediated through social media. However, the argument, support, and organization are still developing.The argument has a consistent point of view, but lacks complexity and sometimes devolves into cliches about social media. Your perspective has the potential to be thoughtful and nuanced, but the essay is really held back by the framing of the argument in such a general way . This leads to the essay relying on categorical/listy organization when a more complex organization would improve the argument. Work on the conceptual arc of the argument, choosing one thing or two related things to focus on and digging deeper into that. Similarly, your support needed more digging into. Your use of your own experience is credible and interesting , but it tends to be vague, not getting into specific details. Reasoning and analysis are also underdeveloped. See marginal comments for more suggestions. Keep up the hard work.
wp2- This essay is still developing with some aspects that are bordering on beginning. For example, the stance of the paper is incomplete, vague, and overly general. Ground your argument in something more specific – that task of this writing project was to choose something more specific than all arts and humanities for all students in all universities. The essay does not seem to be genuinely addressing an audience of USC parents.The use of support is inconsistent. There is a genuine attempt to engage with some of the assigned sources. However, the essay as a whole lacked full support. Many claims were made without direct evidence and examples – a practice which undermines your credibility as the writer. In addition, the essay was organized in a categorical way; in fact, it is organized in an almost stream-of-conscious way with little conceptual development between paragraphs. In general, this essay needed a stronger and more specific argument to help give the organization shape.
WP3 – TO COME.. I will send this by sunday 16th april