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Writing Process Reflection Letter

Your reflection letter should be 1-2 pages, double-spaced, in Times New Roman 12-point font. For this assignment only, you do NOT need to include a header, heading, and title. However, you can still think of the reflection letter as a five-paragraph reflective essay. You need to include: (1) Dear Professor Viggy Alexandersson, (2) a 6-8 sentence introduction, (3) 7-10 sentence body paragraph 1, (4) 7-10 sentence body paragraph 2, (5) 7-10 sentence body paragraph 3, (6) a 6-8 sentence conclusion, and (9) Sincerely, (Your first and last name without parentheses). Specifics for the paragraphs are as follows after writing: “Dear Professor Viggy Alexandersson.”

Dear Professor Viggy Alexandersson,

Introduction Paragraph (answer all of the following, 6-8 sentences):

1. Who are you? In other words, how would you define yourself as a student (e.g., a first-generation student, a non-traditional age student, a student who loves school and learning, a student who struggles in school but sees the need for school, etc.)?

2. Why are you attending City College of Chicago?

3. What academic and/or professional goals are you trying to achieve by attending college?

4. Why did you sign-up for English 101?

5. What happens when someone cannot critically think, read, and write well?

6. What is possible when someone can critically think, read, and write well?

Body Paragraph 1 (Critical Thinking, answer all of the following, remember to add a transition word to the start of this paragraph, 7-10 sentences):

1. How do you define critical thinking in your own words?

2. Why is it important to critically think well?

3. How can critical thinking help you with your academic goals?

4. How can critical thinking help you with your professional goals?

5. How can critical thinking help you in everyday life (e.g., how you engage with friends, family, and/or strangers)?

6. Objectively speaking, what did you observe about your critical thinking at the start of the term/what did your critical thinking look like then?

7. Objectively speaking, what does your critical thinking look like now? How do you organize and communicate your thoughts now as opposed to before taking this course?

8. Subjectively speaking, how does your growth with critical thinking make you feel and why?

Body Paragraph 2 (Critical Reading, answer all of the following, remember to add a transition word to the start of this paragraph, 7-10 sentences):

1. How do you define critical reading in your own words?

2. Why is it important to critically read well?

3. How can critical reading help you with your academic goals?

4. How can critical reading help you with your professional goals?

5. How can critical reading help you in everyday life (e.g., how you engage with friends, family, and/or strangers)?

6. Objectively speaking, what did you observe about your critical reading at the start of the term/what did your critical reading look like then?

7. Objectively speaking, what does your critical reading look like now? How do you read to gain a deeper understanding now as opposed to before taking this course?

8. Subjectively speaking, how does your growth with critical reading make you feel and why?

Body Paragraph 3 (Critical writing, answer all of the following, remember to add a transition word to the start of this paragraph, 7-10 sentences):

1. How do you define critical writing in your own words?

2. Why is it important to critically write well?

3. How can critical writing help you with your academic goals?

4. How can critical writing help you with your professional goals?

5. How can critical writing help you in everyday life (e.g., how you engage with friends, family, and/or strangers)?

6. Objectively speaking, what did you observe about your critical writing at the start of the term/what did your critical writing look like then?

7. Objectively speaking, what does your critical reading look like now? How do you write to express yourself more effectively now as opposed to before taking this course?

8. Subjectively speaking, how does your growth with critical writing make you feel and why?

Concluding Paragraph (answer all of the following, remember to add a transition word to the start of this paragraph, 6-8 sentences):

1. With new words, restate who you are. In other words, how would you define yourself as a student (e.g., a first-generation student, a non-traditional age student, a student who loves school and learning, a student who struggles in school but sees the need for school, etc.)? Don’t write that exact same sentence that you used in your introduction.

2. With new words, restate what is possible when someone can critically think, read, and write well. Don’t write that exact same sentence that you used in your introduction.

3. Subjectively speaking, how does it make you feel to have nearly finished the work in this course?

4. Subjectively speaking, how would it make you feel to pass this course?

5. Subjectively speaking, how would it make you feel to know that you are good enough at critically thinking, reading, and writing to critically think, read, and write in any class you take after this class?

6. Choose any one positive thing that you would like to say about your progress in this course that you think would convince the portfolio reviewer professors to give you a passing portfolio grade (e.g., what was the most important lesson you learned in this class).

Sincerely,

Sam Smith