Writing Prep for Self-Assessment Essay 

LINK TO SUMMARY RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY

LINK TO SPREADSHEET

Work with your group to analyze the class survey results and compare them to your own writing process.

Step 1: Form Groups
Get into small groups (about 3-4 students).

Step 2: Review the Survey Results
As a group, look over the class survey results about the writing process. Talk about:

• What trends or patterns do you notice?
• What surprised you?
• What do most students seem to struggle with or do well?
• Briefly discuss how your own experience is similar or different than the answers you’re seeing in the survey results

Step 3: Compare to Your Own Experience (individual writing period)
After the group analysis, start making notes for your self-assessment essay.

Reminder to focus on the results you can integrate into the criteria defined in the self-assessment assignment:

• Describe your writing process for each assignment (planning, drafting, revising, editing). Were there any differences in the way you approached the assignments and why?
• Explain how your research process was different for each project (what sources you used and how you found them). In addition, how was your experience with primary research? Did you see the benefits of conducting and interpreting information that you had collected on your own?
• Include a couple of comparisons to class survey results about the writing process (how your experience was similar to or different from others).
• Discuss how peer review, group work, or class discussions impacted your writing. Did you find it helpful to talk through your process or get feedback from peers?
• Identify what parts of your research and writing processes were difficult and what parts felt easier. Why do you think that is?
• Share whether there was an assignment you liked or disliked. If you liked a particular assignment, why did you like it? If you disliked a particular assignment, same. What about that assignment did you find frustrating?
• End with advice you would give yourself for future research and writing

Notes: Remember that your reflections on the researched response and neighborhood profile might provide some great information for this final reflection. They will at least serve to refresh your memory about the composition experience. Feel free to quote from those reflections if relevant.