“Letter to a Future ENG 111 Student”

(ENG 111-S14F, #56695, Prof. Tim Dalton) | Link to Collaborative Rubric (Dec 6)

Peer Editing Draft due

Dec 6 to the home page of your CUNY Academic Commons portfolio

Graded Revision Due

December 13, by 2pm to the home page of your portfolio

Instructions

Your initial writing assignment took the form of a letter to me about your expectations for class. Your initial reading assignment took the form of another letter, this one addressed to you from my a previous set of writing students about what you should expect in this class. Now it’s your turn to write a “Letter to a Future ENG 111 Student”. 

This is a self-assessment of your learning this semester. As such, you should draw whenever possible on your ungraded writing, on your informal discussions, on all the “little things” where learning happens, maybe without us fully realizing it. Looking to the letters I had you read during the first week of class as a mode, imagine a group of future students at the start of their own ENG 111 journey. Be sure to use concrete detail, evidence from our learning activities, and paraphrases of the Course Learning Objectives as you tell this audience what you have learned in this class. Offer them any tips you might have for how to navigate this course’s learning objectives, assignments, readings, and skills successfully.This essay should be 750-1000 words.

 Complete work should include:

• An argument about the progress you’ve made this semester (a how-to that another student could follow)
• Examples from your own writing (especially work I have not graded, or work elsewhere in this portfolio) that support your argument
• References to our course learning objectives, and specific ways that you feel you’ve met them 
• Reflections on the process of collaborating (ie book groups) to your formal writing

Examples of the above can be found in your contributions to our course blog; your fieldwork with our book groups; your contributions to Commons forums and to Hypothes.is social reads; and in the reflective entries in the submission forms for your peer edit drafts of Essays 1-3, among many other places in our work together.

Please email with any questions.