Rieman Assignment: Mid-term Reflection Due Dates: ?? Complete draft for group peer workshop.

Post your draft to the Moodle forum before you come to class since everyone in your workshop group will need to have access to it. ?? Post your revised mid-term reflection to your electronic portfolio in the Reflections Tab and submit a link to your portfolio through Moodle. We're halfway through this semester-- a good time to pause and reflect on all the reading and writing you've done so far, and its purpose. Youve been doing some reflective writing with your self-assessment to your literacy narrative and some daybook writing. Youve also read Becoming a Reflective Learner in Portfolio Keeping. Reflection is important because the more you understand about yourself as a writer/reader, the more control you'll have over your future as a writer/reader. In addition, this midterm reflective letter will help you prepare for the kind of in-depth analysis and reflection you'll be doing in your Writing Portfolio throughout the semster. Over the past nine weeks youve been practicing a number of reading and writing activities as well as creating a writing community within the larger class. You have been writing daybook entries, reading responses, peer workshop responses, writing to explore pieces, a literacy memoir, and more. You have read a number of essays on various topics about world Englishes, reading and comprehension, the composing process, revision, and assessment. Youve read various literacy memoirsincluding each othersand have thought about your role as a writer in a number of different ways. Because I want you to continue making connections between what were reading and talking about in class and what you are writing about as well as work within the possibilities of digital composing, with this reflection, include at least one relevant picture, one relevant hyperlink, and make at least two concrete connections to assigned class readings to support a point you are making. As a guide to your work, please answer the following questions, in any order that makes sense to you, in a letter addressed to me. You may have other areas of your writing that you reflect on here, but you can begin with these and see where they take you. Aim for 4-5 pages. Since you began college, how has the way you read / write changed? How has the way you think about writing/reading/ research changed? Explain. Can you use any of the texts we've read in class to explain this change? Since you began college, what kind of writing have you enjoyed most and why? (This could be academic, social, or writing you do by yourself for fun). Describe a moment when you had an idea while you were writing. What kind of writing were you doing? (look over your daybook entries, your literacy memoir, WTE

pieces) What was the idea? Whats your experience with writing as a way of makin meaning or making a discovery? What piece of writing that you have done this semester are you most proud of? Why? Include a short passage/quote from this text as an example. (This does not have to be writing you did for this course--you could choose an e-mail, a lab report, a letter, an application, etc.) What piece of writing that you have done this semester are you least proud of? Why? (This does not have to be writing you did for this course - you could choose an e-mail, a lab report, a letter, an application, etc.) What are some questions you have about reading/writing / research? These questions can be about anything related to reading/writing /research (academic reading/writing, how 'professional' writers write, texts we've read in class, rules you've been taught, the role of reading/writing in your life, etc.) - what do you wonder about reading and writing? Come up with at least 3 questions. What are three things related to writing/reading / research you'd like to work on in the second half of the semester? State explicitly what you plan to do in working on these things. Please think more in terms of writing and reading concepts that youd like to become more proficient at or learn more about as opposed to Id like to make an A this semester. What are some things you want to be better at doing as a reader/writer by the end of the semester? Once you have written, work shopped and revised this letter, post it to your portfolio website under your Reflections tab.