ILP Drafting Assignment
This assignment is advance work on your "Individual Learning Plan" (ILP). Bring an electronic copy of your ILP draft to class. You will share it with your peers, and I will circulate through the room and discuss it with each of you
Below you will find questions that are designed to get you thinking about the issues that will be important to your ILP. When fully developed over the course of several related assignments, your ILP will be a brief personal essay, that emphasizes the goals and strategies that are most important to you, with evidence to provide justification for your choices, and promises (to yourself) about what you will do this term to reach those goals.
We will work our way gradually towards composing a full ILP. We're not ready to write the full paper yet, but we will start by breaking the task into sections and supplying information for each section. See a model of the first very rough draft of the ILP: Elizabeth Seton ILP.doc
Our first draft will look something like this (and it should be of a similar length):
- A brief introduction, articulating your goals in this class (beyond "getting a good grade" or "doing it because I have to").
- A brief explanation of your strengths as a writer (refer to comments from me or other teachers, motivation in the form of career goals or work experience, and/or guidelines you find in the textbook).
- A brief list of 3-5 specific areas you want to work on this term. (I want to see a list, such as "I want to work on A, B, and C. I will work on A because... I will work on B because... I will work on C because... ")
- This list must include some major grammar issues (as identified by your MyCompLab pre-test).
- This list may also other issues such as
time-management, or personal attitude towards writing.
- Promises that will help you
to meet your goals. This section
- must include a statement about how
many MyCompLab exercises you plan to complete and what score you want to reach
- may also include promises such as "Attend every class" or "not update Facebook during class" or "submit every assignment on time" or "spend at least 3 hours studying the night before each class" or "make appointment to talk with professor once a month" or "bring rough drafts of every assignment to the writing center."
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5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
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1 |
Insightful, personalized, precise |
Informative, productive, clear |
Helpful, useful, relevant |
Some attempt at utility |
Vague or mechanical |
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2. Strengths |
Insightful and convincingly supported |
Informative and usefully supported |
Useful, with some support |
Some attempt to explain strengths |
No explanations of stated strengths |
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3. Work Areas |
3-5, with insightful reasons |
3-5, with effective reasoning |
At least 3, with partial reasoning |
Some attempt to specify and reason |
No specific work areas or reasons stated. |
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4. Promises |
Ambitious & precise; integrating MyCompLab goals. |
Significant & clear; including MyCompLab goals.
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Reasonable, clear; some reference to MyCompLab
goals. |
Some attempt at useful promises. |
Vague; no clear effort shown. |
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