Semester Reflection

 

Please address the following questions about your exeperiences and the work you produced this semster. You may respond in the form of a letter, an essay, or by addressing each question by number. Be sure to put your name on this document and hand it in to me in my office (LL309B)or email to me, on the day of our scheduled final: Dec 9, 12:20 pm – 2:10 pm. Thanks in advance for your responses. Also, I'd like to say “thanks” for a good semester; I've enjoyed working with you over the past 16 weeks. Take care!

1. Consider your accomplishments this term; describe the strengths and weaknesses of your work in this course.
   
   
2. Discuss some of the steps you took to reach the objectives you set for yourself in this course. Did your objectives change during the semester? If so, describe how. What new objectives will you set for yourself for future writing tasks?
   
   
3. What strategies will you take away from this semester to use in other classes?
   
   
4. Which project(s) do you feel especially proud of? Explain why?
   
   
5. Which project (or writing experience) did you learn the most from? Describe what you learned.
   
   
6. Which project did you find particularly interesting or challenging? Explain why.
   
   
7. What surprises you about the work you completed for this class? What surprises you about the approaches you've used?
   
   
8. In what ways has writing for the screen influenced your writing and/or writing process? In other works, wow does electronic text change the nature of writing?
   
   
9. Do you think the World-Wide Web and other hypertextual media are changing writing as we know it? How so?
   
   
10. What aspects of this course did you find most beneficial? Which ones were least helpful?
    
    
11. What sorts of things have you learned in this course that you think will be useful in other courses you take?
    
    
12. Any other thoughts or comments?