Assignment 9

English 101: Introduction to College Writing – Spring 2013

Assignment 9: Reflecting further on your writing—post-conference

 

1.  Please read pages 194-99 in the DK Handbook. These pages include ways writers might understand and connect with audiences. One of the reflective goals states that your final portfolio reflective essay will “account for and evaluate” the choices you made in your interpretive essays by “ describing how the writing works to build productive, ethical relationships with other people and their ideas and writing” (Student Guide 6).

 

2.  Given this course goal, re-read your interpretive essay and the reflective writing you did for assignments. Create a blog post and title it Assignment 9. Write a few paragraphs that explain how your own writing works to build relationships with others. Consider the following questions:

a.  Who are the people that you see yourself engaging with?

b.  Whose ideas and writing are you building relations with?

c.  In what ways does your writing work to make that relationship productive?

d.  How does your work engage in the ethical dimension of communication? (Maybe first describe what the “ethical dimension of communication” means to you.)

 

3.  As you respond to the questions above, be sure to provide specific evidence from your own writing to support your claims.

 

4.  Conclude this writing assignment by identifying ways in which you plan to revise your interpretive essay to better engage with others, their ideas, and their writing.

 

5.  Publish this post on your blog.