Reflective
Commentary Guidelines for Annotated Bibliography, Audience Analysis, and Proposal |
| After revising each of your major assignments, you need to write a reflective commentary in which you discuss your experience of completing this assignment. In the case of the Annotated Bibliography, Audience Analysis, and Proposal, please consider the following questions: |
1) What was the hardest challenge you faced in completing this assignment? Why? What do you think your project does particularly well? Why? 2) This project should have made you aware of ways — big or small — you might want or need to change your own topic. Almost certainly, it will have made you realize that you need to narrow your focus in order to achieve the depth necessary to produce a persuasive essay addressing a particular audience. Potentially, you may even have concluded that the most interesting path to pursue is tangential to your initial inquiry. Discuss where you want to go from here. 3) How did the peer response process go and what changes did you make after receiving your peers’ comments? Note that you should not tell me about every little change — I don’t need to read about every comma you put in or took out; instead, you should describe how you spent your time in revision. Did you re-think some of your points, change the organization, focus on technical issues? |
The
commentary should be written like an essay — meaning well-organized
and properly paragraphed, grammatically correct, do not number your answers
— but the style may be informal, and of course you should use the
first person. I expect it to be between 300 and 350 words total (not per question). Please use your word count function to put the total (not including the
header) after the commentary. No title is necessary. Submit it as a separate file attached to the same e-mail message in which you submit the project itself. |
| Reflective commentaries, like other aspects of the assignment assessed on the rubric, earn scores of √+, √, √-, or -. However, rather than being averaged into the score, your reflective commentary score will be converted to a bonus: a √+ will earn a bonus of 1 point; a √ will earn a bonus of .5 points; a √- will not earn a bonus; a – will result in a .3 point deduction, and not turning in a reflective commentary will result in a 1 point deduction. Remember that this essay assignment starts with a base value of 20 points. |