Thursday, April 5, 2012

Blog Post #8: Reflective Post (due by class on 4/19)

Your final blog post assignment is a reflective post about your experience in this class. Reflective writing enables one to gain a better understanding of the self and the relationship between one’s self and the world, by exploring personal attitudes, experiences, and memories. As you write, you look forward to the goals that you might achieve and backward to see what you have accomplished so far. Writing prompts (such as below) help your thinking in this process.

For this assignment, please respond to the following questions, and post your response to your individual course blogs by the class period on Thursday, April 19th. Please title your blog entry as “Blog Post #8: Reflective Post.” (For grading purposes, you may also identify all of your posts by the post assignment # by going to your blog's dashboard and editing the post titles.) 

1) What information did you find useful in this class?
2) What do you think were the best or challenging aspects of this class?
3) In general, how might you incorporate the knowledge and experiences gained from this class into your personal, academic, and professional life beyond this classroom?
4) Think of a specific question or issue that is most pressing to you right now. How would you use the knowledge from this class (e.g., knowledge of rhetoric and/or rhetorical criticism) to gain perspective on this question or issue?