As part of the drafting cycle, students write several, short reflections where they self-assess their own writing and reflect upon the choices they made and how they chose to interpret feedback through the drafting process. In lieu of a final exam, students will write a lengthier reflection on all the writing they’ve done over the course of a semester. This reflection is where students can demonstrate the “metaknowledge” about writing and writing processes we’ve been constructing throughout the course and use their insights into their own rhetorical choices and writing processes to project their writing futures. This reflection is not an essay—i.e., it does not go through the usual drafting cycle—but a culmination of all work done over the semester.
