The Opinion Editorial Reflection addresses the following questions:
- What publication are you pitching to and why? Who is your specific audience? Does your narrative tell a story?
- What rhetorical situation are you addressing in this op-ed?
- What rhetorical strategies (style, tone, etc) did you employ given the genre and rhetorical situation?
The Visual Essay Reflection addresses the following questions:
- Why did you choose your genre and how did your intended audience affect your choice?
- What rhetorical strategies did you use to engage your audience? Did you draw on pathos (appealing to emotions), logos (appealing to logic or reason), and/or ethos (your own ethics/credibility)? How so?
- How did composing a visual essay differ from writing a traditional essay?
The Critical Analysis Conference Paper Reflection addresses the following questions:
- How did you think about and refine your thesis statement throughout your research journey?
- Did you have trouble finding some information and if so, how did you overcome this challenge?
- Were there any sources you found while conducting your research that you discarded? If so, why?
- What problems did you encounter in analyzing your text and how did you solve them?
- How did the sources you used to support your thesis statement contribute to your argument?
The Final Reflection addresses the following questions:
- Looking back at your journal entry from the start of the semester about Intention Setting and the check-in we did with it recently, do you feel that you achieved your personal goals during our course this semester?
- Which writing assignment that we did was most meaningful for you, and why?
- What was your favorite part of the class overall? What do you wish would have been different?
- What did you learn or take away from our guest speaker’s visit? What was most meaningful for you and why?
- Any writing goals for yourself moving forward?
- Any ways that you plan to use your writing to engage with/in community in the future? Anything from the guest speaker visit that gave you ideas you want to implement around using writing for activism/community connection?
