Reflecting on (digital) writing process

In class today you will get started on your last assignment for the course: a reflective analysis of how work for this course has influenced your writing practices. This will be a traditional print essay - to be turned in as a word processed document in your portfolio (on the CD) with your Web essay, the text for your wikipedia entry, and your reflection on your experience with wikipedia.

Description of assignment:
Write an essay in which you analyze and reflect on your growth as a digital writer.

Your essay should include:

1. A detailed description of your process for working on each of the major projects (the blog, the wikipedia project, and the web essay);

2. Evaluation of the effectiveness of your process (what worked, what didn't, how you plan to change and why)

3. Evaluation of the writing products you created for the course

4. Discussion of how (if) and why your practices for writing evolved or changed over the term; include reflections on how (if) changes in your writing process reflect the nature of the digital spaces and audiences you are writing for.

5. Discussion of what you learned about differences between writing in digital versus print spaces

6. Discussion of how (whether) your work for this course has contributed to your overall growth as a writer.

Although information to include in the essay is listed here as a series of points, you will need to organize your work into a smooth, interconnected discussion.

Criteria for grade:

-- focus, organization, effective use of analysis, movement between general statements & specific examples, creativity, style and correctness.

-- demonstration of original thinking