Download Self-Evaluation Essay - Fall 2008 | LING 1 and more Papers Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! Ling 1 & 2, Fall 2008 Self-Evaluation Essay Your Self-Evaluation Essay will consist of a one-page narrative introduction and a three-page summary of two grammar/editing strategies that you have investigated during your Reflective Revising work in Ling 2 this quarter. (Total: four pages.) I. Narrative Introduction In a brief essay (approximately three paragraphs), introduce yourself and your evaluation portfolio to the evaluation committee. What were some of the most important things you learned, or writing skills you developed, this quarter? Then, introduce each of the three major papers you wrote. Name the topic, give the title, and describe each one with a superlative: for instance, “my best paper” or “the most interesting topic” or “the topic with the most challenging reading assignments.” II. Summary of Two Grammar/Editing Strategies While revising essay drafts that were returned to you with comments by me, you had to read about and understand grammar and editing strategies that I suggested, including Web links to more information about the grammar or vocabulary topic. Then, while making your corrections, I asked you to make your own comments to me, telling me what you changed and why you changed it, referring to linguistic or grammatical terms and concepts and rules of grammar. These comments, the “Was- Now-How-Why” format, became your Reflective Revising Log. Choose two areas where you did extensive self-study. Maybe these will be the areas where you made the most frequent errors, or maybe they will be the areas where you feel you learned the most useful or interesting information about writing correct words, sentences, and paragraphs. From these two areas, choose an array of example errors that shows the widest variety and most interesting types. Explain them in a narrative format (three pages maximum). You can see an example of a narrative format for this section of your self-evaluation at: http://www.esl.ucsb.edu/people/rightmire/example_self-evaluation.pdf. To develop your essay, you must use examples of successful corrections you have made to essays you have written and revised for this course during this quarter. Show: • What the original sentence was (highlight the error); • What the revised sentence looks like (highlight the change); • what your decision-making process was; • a description, in technical grammar/editing terms, of what you learned. First Draft due Monday, December 1 for in-class peer review and instructor review (bring a hard copy) Second Draft due Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday (December 1, 2, or 3) at your tutorial Final Copy due Wednesday, December 3 (at the time of your Final Evaluation Portfolio) (The final copy due date may extended by prior arrangement with your instructor, for example, if your tutorial appointment falls late in the week.)
