Title: Self-Reflection
Due: Friday October 18 by 11:59PM.
Length: 500 words (+/- 10%)
Weight: 10% of the total grade
Format: Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12pt. Your project should have the title
“WRIT1000 Assessment Four – Self Reflection for xxxxxxx” where “xxxxxxxx” is your
student number. Please only submit Word documents (.doc or .docx). Turnitin does
not recognise .pages files.
Description: For your fourth assessment, we are moving away from the writing of
your final project, and instead thinking about the process of writing itself. In this
assessment, you are expected to reflect on your process so far, and to provide a brief
commentary on some of your choices. Remember, WRIT1000 is framed around an
ethical proposition (“it is good to write clearly”) and an assertion about our
professional identities (“you are in the process of becoming someone”). This reflection
task is an opportunity for you to reflect on how your writing–specifically clear,
effective, communicative writing–has been an active choice that you have made, and
a choice that is helping you become a more professional and integrated person.
In your reflection, you should answer the following questions:
- How did I select my field and topic of interest? Does this align with who I hope to
become in the future (either as a student or following university)? - How have you strived to be a more clear and ethical writer? Give a brief example
from your submitted work and explain how it succeeds or fails to communicate
clearly. - What has been the most interesting discovery I have made while preparing my final
task? Why? - What have I learned in WRIT1000 that has shaped my understanding of writing? How
might that impact my professional identity in the future?
As this is a self-reflection, you should definitely use “I” and “my” etc. to show that you
are reflecting on your own writerly choices. Please follow the above structure for
your response. If you chose to include the above questions in your document, they
will not count toward your final word count.