Reflective Narrative Assignment Sheet
ENGL 1050: Foundations in Written Communication
Purpose and Directions
The final writing assignment for this course is a narrative reflection. Writing an end-of-the-semester reflection gives you a chance to tell the story of your own learning processes and accomplishments throughout the semester, as well as your understanding of the readings, activities, and class discussions. Asking you to think about how your approach to writing has changed as a result of the work in class will help you apply your new skills and understanding to future projects, both within your university career and beyond.
Begin this narrative reflection by reading Chapter 10 of your textbook, “Narrating a Reflection,” thoroughly. Then, start building your narrative by using some of the writing activities in the chapter section “Narrative Priming: A How-To” (pp. 250-252). Ensure that your narrative reflection possesses all four of the essential elements that Kathryn Rentz suggests a narrative needs. Those four elements are: a happening, an order, a point, and details.
Formatting Requirements
Your narrative reflection should be a minimum of three (3), full, double-spaced pages long. It should be set in 12-point Times New Roman font and it should include a title, as well as a header on the upper-left hand corner of its first page that provides your name, the course number, your instructor’s name, and the date. This assignment will be submitted as a Word document through the dropbox on Elearning labeled “DROPBOX: Reflective Narrative.”
Objectives
This assignment supports the course goals by allowing you to:
Fuse narrative craft with reflective thinking
Tell a story of your learning in this course
Resources
The majority of the resources you will need in order to successfully complete this assignment can be found in Chapter 10 of the textbook and in the reflective narrative module on Elearning.
Evaluation
This reflection will contribute two percent (2%) toward your overall course grade, and it will be graded on how well the:
Writing develops the four defining elements of a narrative
Narrative tells the story of learning against the scene of your English 1050 course
Audience
The audience for this reflection is your instructor, who would like to read your story of how this course contributed to your learning.
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