Do you use an outline or any prewriting process that you did not before?

Your longitudinal reflection will be an essay of 3-6 pages in which you look back at your work
in First-Year Composition and examine your growth as a writer.
Consider how your writing has evolved, what strategies and techniques you have learned, and
how your perceptions of writing and of your identity as a writer have changed over the course of
the semester. Your longitudinal reflection should provide specific examples from your portfolio
or detailed description of intangible elements (such as writing processes) as evidence for claims
you make about your writing.
In addition, your reflection should describe specific ways in which the work you have done in
this class has informed and been informed by work you have done in your other classes and
experiences outside school.
Some things to write about:
Writing has evolved and strategies / techniques
Do you use an outline or any prewriting process that you did not before?
Has your editing process changed?
How do you use peer review to your benefit?
Have your thesis statements improved?
Do you skip writing a full introduction paragraph and instead start on your body
paragraphs?
Have you become more comfortable and proficient at finding and incorporating
evidence?
Perceptions of writing and writing processes
Do you identify as a one drafter who plans out in detail or do you jump right in and see
what you think after you have started?
Do you focus on not only local (grammar) revision but also global (sentence and
paragraph) revision?
How do you use your understanding of audience to inform your writing (narrative 2 vs
synthesis essay)?

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