HC 101H, Honors College World Literature: The Narrative Subject, the Subject of Narrative

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The Writing Portfolio assignment: Writing the reflective essay

Due: no later than 10:00 am, Friday, December 8, in my office or main office mail box
Office hours in exam week: Wednesday, 9:30 am to noon

During the term, you've kept all of your returned papers in the yellow UO folder. Now, at the end of the term, you're to write a reflective essay. You'll use your portfolio in order to analyze your writing's strengths and weaknesses, and to list what you hope to continue to improve in your writing. Part I, then, of the reflective essay (maximum length 500 words, or two typed double-spaced pages) details your writing's strengths and weaknesses: what are the things you've discovered about your writing this term? Part II of the reflective essay details to what you'll pay special attention next term: what are your goals in your writing , and how will you meet them? The essay may be in parts or you may write it as one seamless whole: just be sure to address the two concerns of analyzing your writing and making your plans for next term.

Remember the ubiquitous format instructions:

1. Your essay should be typed with one-inch margins all around.
2. Do not use a title page (see next item for further instructions).
3. Your name, the date, and the course title should be typed, single-spaced, on the first page in the upper right-hand corner. Skip two lines, and center your title (the title of your paper, not the title of the book you're writing about). Do not indent the first paragraph, but indent the beginning of each subsequent paragraph without skipping any extra lines.
4. Double space the entire paper; do not use 1 ½ spacing to save room; do not give extra spaces between paragraphs to take up more room. Do not justify the right margin.
5. Be sure your pages are numbered, top right-hand corner. If your wordprocessing program makes it easy, include your name with each page number.
6. Always keep a copy of your paper for yourself. Don't use erasable or onion-skin paper for the original.
7. Periods and commas go inside quotation marks; semi-colons and dashes go outside. If you need to change a word within a quotation in order to make it fit your sentence grammatically, use square brackets, not parentheses, around the changed word.
8. When quoting several lines (but no more than about seven), "block" the quotation by indenting ten spaces from the left and ten from the right. This indentation replaces quotation marks; do not use quotation marks with block quotations (unless you are quoting something, like dialogue, already in quotation marks in the text).

Return to me the UO folder with your papers and the reflective essay on the top/in front of your collected writings. See due date above. You may collect your portfolio at the beginning of next term.

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