As the semester comes to an end, you will organize the work on your\u00a0course site into a portfolio showing the work you have done this semester. Make certain that your entire course subdomain looks complete, coherent, and like you\u2019ve given some thought to its overall design and aesthetics. As part of that process, you\u2019ll write a portfolio cover essay\u00a0about 750 \u2013 1250 words (3-5 pages) in length, discussing your own learning\u00a0and the improvement and progression you\u2019ve made in the course<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In this particular case, the reflective essay should take as its topic your relationship to the writing process\u00a0and should\u00a0explore the improvements or progression you have made in this course. Over the course of your essay, you will link to and discuss\u00a0each of the major projects you\u2019ve published this semester, along with some of the best of your other work.<\/p>\n You might ask and answer the following questions:<\/p>\n Your reflective essay will address these kinds of questions in some way and will make use of the artifacts (your writing projects) you include in your portfolio as evidence to support your answers to the above questions. A reflective essay does not need to have a specific thesis but should have an organizational framework that takes the reader of your essay though your ideas effectively and clearly.<\/p>\n Because process is such a personal part of writing, in this reflective essay feel free to use first person and write a narrative of your experience, rather than an argumentative essay.\u00a0You\u00a0can present your discovery by:<\/p>\n However you choose to structure this reflective essay, it still needs to have a purpose. That purpose need not be defined by a thesis but perhaps might have more to do with acknowledging what you have learned and what you are still learning.<\/p>\n Because you are talking about the process of writing\/composing each artifact and the portfolio as a whole, you should think of your portfolio and its artifacts as texts to be analyzed (like you would a piece of literature or an article not written by you). Quote from your writing. Use it to show your process and describe how the writing itself demonstrates your learning.<\/p>\n Imagine that the audience of your reflective essay has not read your writing before. You need to teach them about the artifacts themselves and how your writing process directly your portfolio.<\/p>\n Describe\u00a0the assignments you composed in this course that allowed you to practice writing\u00a0for an audience. Make sure to discuss what you learned in those assignments. Also, consider the challenges of writing to different audiences and how you managed those challenges.<\/p>\n The reflection should become the new index page for your course site\u00a0and\u00a0should begin with a note indicating that the site is an archive of the work that you completed as part of ENG221.000 at Emory University during spring\u00a0semester 2017 and include a link back to your primary domain, should a visitor want to go see what you are up to currently, and a link to the site for this course<\/a>, so that a reader who is going through your work can easily find out more information about the course you were in.<\/p>\n Notice that each of the Student Learning Outcomes outlined in the course site is a separate blog post, with its own separate permalink. As you are going back through your site and writing your reflection essay, consider how each piece you worked on met one or more of those learning outcomes, and then add a link someplace on that page to whichever outcomes it applies to\u2013feel free to\u00a0follow the example in the previous sentence and simply add a small parenthetical note with links to whichever outcomes apply.<\/p>\n Adding those links will create pingback comments on the Student Learning Outcomes posts on this site, and will therefore become another nonlinear route for exploring the work we\u2019ve all engaged in as a community this semester. In order to make sure this works, first log into your own dashboard and find\u00a0 Your reflective essay\u00a0should conform to the same hybrid of MLA guidelines and conventions for publishing on the web that you\u2019ve used for your other writing this semester.<\/p>\n Your reflective essay must include visual elements. You have lots of freedom to decide the nature of these visuals, but one good choice available to you is to take screenshots of the projects on your site and use those as images for the major projects as you discuss them. You can also repeat images from your projects in your reflective essay. Or, you can use Flickr advanced searches<\/a> to find CC-licensed images to use in your essay (make certain that you link back to the image properly if you do!). Just make certain that any images your include in your reflective essay are clearly identified with good captions.<\/p>\n Use links not URLs throughout your reflective essay and throughout your site.<\/p>\n In the process of reorganizing your site into a portfolio, you might consider changing themes for your course site. Your goal is to make certain that the entire site looks good, and shows that\u00a0you\u2019ve given thought to how the pieces all fit together. 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Writing a Reflective Essay<\/h3>\n
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What is most important is that you engage with your writing process in three ways.<\/h3>\n
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Student Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n
Settings > Discussion<\/code> and the first check box, which is probably unchecked, says \u201cAttempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article.\u201d Check that box, then save your settings.<\/p>\nFormatting<\/h3>\n