academic reflective essay

Your essay will be five (5) fully developed paragraphs. Each paragraph needs a minimum of seven (7) sentences.  Submit to the Turnitin Direct Link within the Final UNIT.

Considering all of your writing from the semester, write an essay that reflects on your own writing process and your development as a writer this semester. Resist the urge to create an idealistic and uncritical representation of your progress – turn your critical, analytical eye to your work in the course and the documents you produced. This is not an evaluation of the course or the instructor; rather, it is a reflection on yourself as a writer. How have you improved as an academic writer, careful researcher, and critical thinker?
The Rhetorical Situation:
G – an academic reflective essay
A – academic cadre
P – to show personal growth in academic learning, research, writing, and thinking
T – optimistic, reflective, personal
The Direct Writing Prompt:
Explain how the writing you completed this semester demonstrates that you understand and have met two (2) of the three (3) Student Learning Outcomes and one (1) of the Texas Core Objectives listed below. Choose the two outcomes and one core objective you were most successful with and explain how and why with direct support from your processes and products from this semester. *you may earn up to 5 extra points on your essay by integrating a credible source demonstrating accurate MLA format for both the in-text citation and the Works Cited page
Course Description from the 1301 Syllabus
Intensive study of and practice in writing processes, from invention and researching to drafting, revising, and editing, both individually and collaboratively. Emphasis on effective rhetorical choices, including audience, purpose, arrangement, and style. Focus on writing the academic essay as a vehicle for learning, communicating, and critical analysis. (3 Lec.)

Student Learning Outcomes from the 1301 Syllabus
All essays in this course comply with the three learning outcomes from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB):

Participate in activities that require research, data collection, and written reflection, using the departmental assignment and/or a professor-approved list of tasks and questions.
Complete a visual interpretation, analysis, or synthesis project in standard written American English. Specific occasion, audience, and purpose are clearly outlined.
Compose multiple drafts before submitting a developed research-based argument essay using proper research and substantiation. Research is delivered in standard written American English. Specific occasion, audience, and purpose are clearly outlined.

Texas Core Objectives
The College defines essential knowledge and skills that students need to develop during their college experience. These general education competencies parallel the Texas Core Objectives for Student Learning. In this course, the activities you engage in will give you the opportunity to practice two or more of the following core competencies:

Critical Thinking Skills – to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
Communication Skills – to include effective development, interpretation, and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication
Empirical and Quantitative Skills – to include the manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions
Teamwork – to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal
Personal Responsibility – to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making
Social Responsibility – to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities