Self-reflection Assignment

You will be encouraged to work on your writing throughout the course. Accordingly, you will be asked to keep a self-reflection journal.

The journal assignment is designed to assist you in identifying challenges you face, strategies you develop, and other issues relevant to your unique experience as a student. You may write about any issue that is important to you. The journal entries are private, and should be treated as such. Your instructor will not ask to see them. Rather, in the final week of the course, you will be asked to write a short summary (roughly 500 words) of your journal. This summary will articulate themes, points of growth and change, insights you have gained over the semester, challenges you have faced and overcome, and/or challenges you continue to face. The summary will include only those themes and issues that you feel comfortable sharing with your instructor.

The journal will be evaluated based on the extent to which you demonstrate the ability to identify recurrent themes, changes, insights, and challenges in your life as a student, and is worth 15 percent of your final grade.