October 30, 2007 Archives

Write a reflective essay that supports a single, coherent thesis about the work you did to revise Essay 2.

Your reflection can be informal, in that it can use "I" and you can speak directly to me, but it should still have a thesis and supporting points that are backed up by evidence. So, if you learned from a comment that I posted on your rough draft that your introduction wasn't working the way you had hoped, quote a passage from your introduction, and quote some of what I said about it, and then quote a passage from your revision.  This reflective review is exactly the kind of thing that should be in your ILP, and I don't mind at all if you re-use part of this reflective essay in your ILP.

Note that your ILP should cover more than just Essay 2, so you shouldn't plan to use too much of this essay in your ILP.  But you are welcome to use long passages or even whole paragraphs from this essay in your ILP. I won't consider it plagiarism.

This assignment is worth 20 points (the same as one of the weekly paragraphs.)

Objectively assess the strengths and weaknesses of a claim. Don't puff up the value of the side you agree with and ignore evidence in favor of the side you oppose.