Questions to Help You Write Your Stage 6 Reflective Essay

To help you compose your reflective essay, here are ten questions to ask yourself about your overall 1301 experience and your development as a college writer. Remember, your primary audience for your Stage 6 reflective essay will be me since I will be using it as a guide to your portfolio. Your essay will offer me a way of reading the work in your portfolio and should help me understand what you have learned from your entire body of work for this class.

1. What is your “English 1301” story? Where did you begin? Where have you ended up? What happened along the way?
2. Check out the course syllabus again. What are the goals for this class? Which goals do you feel you’ve accomplished this semester?
3. What were the challenges you faced this semester? How did you deal with those challenges?
4. What do you see in all the work you’ve completed for this class (Stage 2, Stage 3, etc.)? Discuss each assignment individually, if you wish? What was difficult/easy? How has all the work in this class helped you develop as a writer? 
5. What do you know about yourself as a writer now that you didn’t know before the start of this class?
6. What strategies have you learned to use to make your writing more effective?  What were the things that helped you learn in this class?
7. What were some of the important questions for you this semester? What important questions about reading/writing/learning do you plan on investigating after this class is over?
8. In terms of your development as a writer, what do you still need to work out in your mind to reach your educational goals? 
9. What do you still want to know more about? After all of our readings/discussions in class, what do you plan on investigating further?
10. Overall, what have you learned in this class? What have you learned about composing, about rhetoric, about revision, about yourself? Do you consider yourself a more confident writer now?