you will be writing a self-assessment or reflection on your progress this semester. When looking over your essays and assignments this semester, tell in what areas you feel you have gained the most through your writing this semester. (300 to 500 words).

You can use the I Can Skill Statements from the course syllabus to help guide your self-assessment. Pay particular attention to #3 and #15.

ENG 102 "I CAN" Skill Statements

1. I can understand and respect purposes, audiences, contexts, and conventions as I read, research, and integrate a variety of texts into academic writing.
2. I can fairly evaluate ideas and use information from many different perspectives, rhetorical situations, and different kinds of texts.
3. I can understand that academic writing is a conversation between other authors and myself.
4. I can effectively use ideas and information in reading and understanding or composing a variety of texts.
5. I can ethically use ideas and information from research by summarizing, paraphrasing, or quoting when composing a variety of texts.
6. I can come to conclusions and see the related implications or consequences of ideas and information that I use to create arguments.
7. I can place evidence and perspectives from other ideas and information I have collected in a logical order to support my thesis.
8. I can effectively define the scope of my thesis and select relevant information.
9. I can effectively search for information in person, in print, or digitally from the most appropriate repositories like data bases, libraries, experts, etc.
10. I can adapt my writing strategies to various writing tasks including longer research papers.
11. I can manage my time well on various writing tasks (including longer research papers) to allow for revisions.
12. I can evaluate myself as a writer and a learner, know my strengths and weaknesses, asking for help when I need to.
13. I can effectively use edited U.S. English paying attention to word choice, grammar, and spelling.
14. I can design documents while paying attention to patterns of formatting in accordance with purpose, genre, content, voice, organization, graphics, and other elements required by rhetorical contexts.
15. I can see writing as relevant to my educational and career goals.