Exit Survey and Reflection

Exit Survey and Reflection

Reflection is at the heart of the Senior Seminar. You will be reflecting for four main purposes: to introduce the writing in your portfolio; to comment on the work of your peers; to explore yourself as a writer in both formal and informal ways; and to assess the Professional Writing program. Each of the individual pieces of writing you have done for the portfolio will have an accompanying reflection. You will also be keeping an informal account of your own sense of yourself as a writer. Many of these reflections may become a part of your portfolio, but some will be purely for you.

Not only will you be reflecting on your own work, but you will also be reflecting on the work of others in the course. Peer review will be a major component of your work in the course. Throughout Senior Seminar, students will post drafts of their work on the web, and peers will write thoughtful reflections on those drafts. Students will use these reviews as editorial support and will use selections from these reviews as part of their portfolios.

You will be filling out a survey of the Professional Writing program. It, too, is an opportunity for you to reflect. Before you get a grade in the Senior Seminar, you will need to fill out this survey and turn it in to your professor. The information that you provide will help us strengthen the program and will help you to reflect on your experience as a student.