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As a professional in the workplace, you will often use feedback from others to improve your written work. Feedback from your boss or peers can be used to enhance the effectiveness of your written communication. Over the past few weeks, you’ve spent quite a bit of time determining the elements of rhetorical situation that contribute to planning and crafting a piece of writing. Identifying your purpose, audience, context, and genre before you begin writing helps you focus your message and organize your ideas. Reflection and self-assessment are also important to the writing process. Reflection occurs after you’ve completed your writing and your audience reacts or gives you their thoughts or feedback about your message. This is the final step of the writing cycle. It can help you identify trends in your writing and areas for future improvement. For this assessment, you will reflect on writing decisions to demonstrate your ability to apply feedback to revise written work. Assessment DeliverableUsing the resources provided, you will reflect on your ability to make decisions about your writing and apply feedback to revise your written work. You’ll be asked to reexamine and reflect on the writing you’ve submitted during this course and consider the responses and feedback you’ve received from both your peers and your faculty member. You’ll then respond to questions about your reflections and the feedback you’ve received.Complete the Making Writing Decisions and Reflection document.Submit your assessment.
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Making Writing Decisions and Reflection
Select at least 3 of your discussion post initial responses or completed assessments from this course to
use as you complete the activities below.
Use the following strategies as you reflect on your writing:
• Reread your writing out of order. For instance, read the end or the middle of the passage before
the beginning. Reading it this way disrupts the order and allows the errors to stand out.
• Cut and paste your selection into another document or enlarge the text. This strategy allows you
to see the writing differently and identify any patterns.
• Read the selection aloud to yourself or use software to read it to you.
• Have a trusted friend, peer, or family member review your work and discuss what to change.
Using outside resources can provide a valuable perspective when you revise and edit your work.
• Spell check your work using Microsoft Word or another grammar tool, such as Grammarly.
Read your selected writing samples and consider the following questions:
• What do you like about your work?
• What doesn’t seem quite right?
• What feedback did your faculty member provide?
• If you used any spelling or grammar tools or received feedback from others, what did that
feedback indicate?
Now that you’ve completed your review of your selected writing samples, write a 100- to 175-word
response to each of the following reflective prompts in the space provided below each question. Review
each response for correct spelling, grammar, and clarity before you submit your assessment.
1. Based on what you learned during this course, what genres do you recognize yourself using in
your personal life, career, or academic writing? Explain your response.
2. What audiences do you think you will primarily address in your academic and professional
careers? What about in your personal life? What types of writing (genres) do you feel will be most
appropriate for these audiences? Explain your response.
3. What was your favorite written work you created in this course and why? Which assessment was
it from? Include a quotation or description from that written work as an example of what you like
about that piece of writing.
4. Why might your favorite written work, identified in question 3, be effective for your readers? What
skills or strengths did you demonstrate in writing it? How might you apply these skills or strengths
to other writing contexts?
5. Did you notice any patterns or themes in the feedback you received during this course? Does the
feedback tend to focus on audience, genre, structure, content, language, voice, or grammar?
Share or describe the feedback that held the most value for you. How might the feedback help
you improve your writing?
6. As you consider the feedback you received or observations you’ve made about your writing
during this course, what are 1 or 2 skills you want to improve upon as a writer? Why are those
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skills important to developing your writing during your college or career path?
7. Select 1 paragraph from 1 assignment or discussion post you wrote during this course. Consider
choosing a passage that reflects a writing skill you want to develop. Provide that paragraph in the
space below and include the assignment it is from. Identify your intended audience, purpose, and
the genre (form or type) you were creating in the selected writing. Explain how this selection
represents your identity as a writer.
8. Using the paragraph you identified in question 7, complete 1 of the following:
a. Revise and rewrite the paragraph to address and incorporate feedback you received. (If
you need help with the revision, see the resources provided in the assessment support
section.)
b. If you feel your work is proficient and want to further challenge yourself, rewrite the
paragraph to address a different audience and see how your language and style change
as a result.
9. Compare the original paragraph you selected in question 7 to the revised paragraph you wrote in
question 8. What did you consider as you made decisions about what to revise or rewrite?
10. When your faculty member shares feedback on this assessment, what feedback would you find
most valuable to help strengthen your writing skills or craft? How do you believe your writing has
changed throughout this course?
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