Major Assignment

Drafting the Reflective Essay

Today, you will draft your Reflective Essay for the Post/er Project. You’ll write independently in response to the following prompts:

  • Explain your position as the rhetor: Who are you in relationship to your topic, issue, or concern? Why does it matter to you? Are you a member of the community your post/er affects? How and why?
  • Describe your exigence: what is the post/er about? Why is it needed? What is it trying to accomplish?
  • Describe your relationship to your post/er’s audience. What is your relationship to your audience? How do you know your audience? Why have you chosen to address the group you’ve identified?

Be aware that a COMPLETE Reflective Essay should also:

  • integrate Cushman’s, Hu’s, or Grant-Davie’s texts in some way.
  • include a Works Cited list.

HOMEWORK

Complete the Post/er Project by December 15th!!! Your final project should be deliver AS A NEW PAGE to your WordPress site (the one that is linked in the right hand margin) and should include your post or poster and your reflective essay on a single page.

I will be holding extra office hours on TUES 12/12 & THURS 12/14 from 10:45a-12p in Klapper 612.