SUNY Fredonia
Division of Arts and Humanities
ENGL 106: The English Major--An Introduction
Fall 2008
MWF 9-9:50 am, Thompson W231
Office: Fenton 265; MWF 1-2, Th 3-5,, and by appointment; 673-3856
E-mail: simon@fredonia.edu; brucesimon18@yahoo.com
Web Page: www.fredonia.edu/department/english/simon/
Course ANGEL Space: https://angel.fredonia.edu/

On the Final Reflection, Fall 2008

The final reflection (due Thursday, 30 October 2008 in the LA drop box on the course ANGEL space's Lessons area) is a self-reflection/learning analysis of at least 5 pages in which you use your experiences inside and outside the classroom this half-semester to identify the most important things you learned about the major and about yourself in ENGL 106. To keep your reflection/analysis from being too general or abstract, you should make specific references to readings from the course, our discussions in class and on the course ANGEL space's discussion board, our guest speakers, and any relevant out-of-class experiences.

It may help to consider the following questions as you brainstorm for the essay: How has your perspective on the English major at SUNY Fredonia changed since the course began? What are your personal goals for the rest of your time in the major? What do you see now as the key value(s) of being an English major? What specifically in the work you did for the course contributed most to the process that connects 'then' and 'now'?

Your final reflection will be evaluated by the following criteria (in order of importance): development of ideas, including relevance and specificity of connections drawn between ideas, course materials/activities, and out-of-class experiences; structure/organization; sentence-level writing; formatting (including correct use of MLA format and set-up of bibliography).