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                      Project #4: Reflective Writing

 

Background & Forefront: Your last assignment of the semester is a Reflective Essay on your experience of English 201. It is due with your portfolio (the collection of your revised work) on May 19th by 5 pm.  Email your final submission to bondeng201@gmail.com as a PDF with your section in the subject line.  If you do not submit a portfolio, you are putting your grade in peril.  Submissions sent after May 19th will not be accepted.  Ok, back to the Reflective Essay: it will run 3-5 double spaced pages and have a title.  Consider addressing the following.  But remember: this assignment should not read as a list. It is an essay. So as you begin brainstorming in response to the prompts, aim to develop a structure and a thesis that captures the trajectory of your writing this semester.

 

Your Writing

  • Has your approach/process changed over the course of the semester? Why or why not?

  • Describe your writing in each of the assignments. What are some similarities or differences you see across the work you submitted this semester? Cite concrete examples.

  • What was your writing like in English 101? What’s it like now?  What  attributed to the shifts in your writing?  Explain.  Or, conversely, why did your writing remain static?

  • What do you consider your strengths as a writer? What assignment best highlighted them.  How and why?

Your Collaborative Efforts

  • What did you learn about your own thinking from the group projects this semester?

  • What did your peers teach you?  Remember there were three collaborative assignments: the dialogue, the art and the city project and the class collage.  What collaborative skills did you gain? Or what are some that you want to work on in the future?

  • Did your group have a meltdown? Or did you melt together productively? Compare or contrast your dialogue group project to the art in the city project. What were some elements that enriched one project? Or were counterproductive for the other?

Gentrification & The City

  • What did you learn about NYC this semester?

  • Describe how your perspective on NYC, or how your experience of the place has changed.  Do you see things now that you didn’t see before?  If so, what are they?

  • What did you know about gentrification before the course?  What do you know about it now?  From your perspective, what are the benefits of gentrification? Its disadvantages?

  • What’s your thinking on hipsters, bohemians and artists?

Reading

  • Was there one reading, or a set of readings that were   central to growing your understanding this semester?   Explain why and cite the text.
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