Academic Writing Experience
1.Describe your past experiences with academic writing (i.e. writing for a grade in a class versus writing for fun). In past courses, when you received a grade on a paper, have you typically understood why you got that grade?
2.Can you give an example of an academic writing experience where you felt really successful? Describe why you think this experience with writing was a positive one.
3.What do you expect the writing in this class to be like? How do you think writing in this class will be similar or different than the writing you have done in other classes?
4.Other than writing for classes, what other ways do you write in your daily life? Some examples are: texting, making lists, keeping a diary, posting on social media (tweets, Instagram/TikTok captions, Reddit threads, Discord posts), writing emails or cards to friends or family. In what ways does this type of writing differ from academic writing for a course?
5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYECIjmnQs(3 min). What connections can you draw from the video to your own experiences in
college and/or writing in particular?
6.What is something you are good at (can be in school or outside of school)? How did you become good at it? If you replicated the process of how you became good at that thing to become good at writing, what do you think would happen?
7.Since this course is a writing-intensive class, there are specific learning outcomes related to writing that students can work on. Browse through the Writing-Intensive Learning Outcomes here. After looking through those, create your own goal related to writing for this semester. Your goal can be informed by these learning outcomes but should be something personal and specific to you.
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