Assignment Introduction

The Self-Assessment Essay is a kind of research paper. Your task is to show, with claims and evidence, how you’ve developed as a writer and thinker this semester, using your own work as evidence. Your claims will be statements about what you’ve learned. Your evidence may come in the form of a quote or screenshot of your work or through your retelling of a central learning moment.

Your essay will answer the question, “To what extent have I achieved the course learning outcomes this semester?” and must directly quote and respond to the five course learning outcomes below:

1. Examine how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users.
2. Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
3. Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
4. Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
5. Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.

Grading Checklist

• First draft turned in on time
• Final draft turned in on time (clearly revised from first and second draft)
• Fulfills the minimum 850 word requirement
• Utilizes proper formatting (including heading, title, page numbers)
• Includes at least three multimodal elements
• Successfully makes claims about student’s learning
• Provides direct quotes, summaries, and/or paraphrases from student’s own writing
• Directly quotes and responds to the five course learning outcomes:
  • Examine how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users
  • Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations
  • Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing
  • Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations
  • Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences