To help you compose your reflective essay (3-5 double-spaced pages), here are ten questions to ask yourself about your overall ENG 3351 experience and your development as a creative writer. Your primary audience for this reflective essay will be me since I will be using this piece of writing as a guide to your portfolio. Your essay will offer me a way of reading the work in your portfolio and should help me understand what you have learned from your entire body of work for this class.
- What is your “English 3351” story? Where did you begin? What happened along the way? Where have you ended up?
- Check out the course syllabus again. What are the goals for this class? Which goals do you feel you’ve accomplished this semester?
- What were the challenges you faced this semester? How did you deal with those challenges?
- What do you see in all the work you’ve completed for this class? Discuss each assignment individually, if you wish. What was difficult/easy? How has all the work in this class helped you develop as a writer?
- What do you know about yourself as a writer now that you didn’t know before the start of this class?
- What strategies have you learned to use to make your writing more effective? What were the things that helped you learn in this class?
- What were some of the important questions for you this semester? What important questions about creative writing do you plan on investigating after this class is over?
- In terms of your development as a writer, what do you still need to work out in your mind to reach your goals?
- What do you still want to know more about? After all of our readings/discussions in class, what do you plan on investigating further?
- Overall, what have you learned in this class? What have you learned about the craft of creative writing, revision, about yourself? Do you consider yourself a more confident writer now?
