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Reflective Essay on Portfolio

• Rough draft workshop: 10 December 2012 (bring TWO copies of paper and POST rough draft to wiki).
• Final draft: 15 December 2012.          

Our final project will require a self evaluation of your progression throughout the semester. Students will review their four previous assignments and the compilation of these assignments in the final Research Proposal. Students will an argumentative paper that discusses and demonstrates their understanding and application of the four learning objectives of this course (listed in syllabus). 

Portfolio and Reflective Argument Assignment

To pass this course, students must complete the final portfolio and reflective argument assignment required by the WSU Composition Program. This assignment is designed to prepare students to transfer knowledge and skills from Intermediate Writing to subsequent courses and other writing contexts.

Research in psychology and writing studies has shown that metacognition, or analysis of one’s own thinking processes, is key to helping people transfer knowledge and skills from the context where they were initially learned to future contexts. Therefore, the WSU Composition Program requires that Intermediate Writing courses include reflective assignments designed to promote metacognition.