Core Value I. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development.
I’m not going to lie, I could have done a bit better on this value. Sometimes I left feedback unanswered and didn’t revise when I should have. However, these incidents were not the majority. On the majority of my assignments, such as my first Stone Money assignment and my Research Proposal assignment, I replied to feedback with appropriate revisions. I did my best to improve my writing, not only in these cases, but in general, when I completed my short argument rewrites. In those cases I strove to add more content and research, such as adding a patient perspective into my Rebuttal Rewrite. This was not my strongest value, but I still demonstrated a sufficient understanding.
Core Value II. My work demonstrates that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities.
I have been quite active in discussing work with my Professor and others. I almost always replied to feedback, giving rewrites when required. This can be seen in my Definition Rewrite post. I also attended “office” hours on Monday, December 5th in order to literally converse about my writing. In class, I have discussed other student’s writing, helping them to understand assignments as they did the same for me, specifically in the Missing Dollar exercise. That was a collaboration between many students. Collaboration is an important part of the writing process, and I believed I engaged in a good amount in order to understand this value.
Core Value III. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments.
I was given a great opportunity to demonstrate my understanding of this value, by giving feedback to three different students’ works as an exercise. My comments on yankeeskid6, prof2020, and dublin517’s posts provided insight on how I fully understood how to analyze text. analyzing my own text with the help of Professor Hodges was also very helpful. He helped me with my original Causal Argument, telling me that my argument that dysregulation is a part of college was both causation and definition. I fixed this in my Causal Rewrite, in which my argument was clearer. I feel I now have a great understanding of how to analyze text effectively in order to improve it.
Core Value IV: My work demonstrates that I have met the expectations of academic writing by locating, evaluating, and incorporating illustrations and evidence to support my own ideas and interpretations.
I have met this core value, and demonstrated my proficiency in this value in many of my works. I have often gone above the minimum number of sources needed, showing my willingness to not just do what is required for a grade, but what is required for quality writing. I have also added new sources where none were required, demonstrating my willingness to always improve. These qualities are most evident in my Definition Rewrite, in which I exceeded the minimum number of sources and added new sources that were not present in the original Definition post.
Core Value V. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation.
I did my best to uphold this value by properly citing my sources and trying to interpret their content in the clearest way possible. This skill came from learning how to Purposefully Summarize, in which I summarized and interpreted three articles in order to fit three arguments. I was mostly successful in my summaries, but improved as the semester progressed. As for citations, I started weak but finished strong. Professor Hodges corrected my MLA-style citations in my original Stone Money post, which were corrected in my Stone Money Rewrite. I always gave proper credit to my sources. This may have been my strongest value of all.
Rowan Counterintuitive 