E-Portfolio Reflective Statement

(750 - 1000 Words)

Write a statement of 750 to 1000 words, aimed at readers of your portfolio, including
English 1101 instructors, your fellow students, and others you choose to share with. In your
statement, explore each of the prompts below. The two prompts have equal importance.
You are welcome to divide your statement into two parts; please create some unity for your
statement in an opening and/or closing paragraph.

Reflecting on the Reflecting on the

Processes of writing Contexts of writing
What did you do, Why did you make
as a writer, certain choices as you
to create your projects? developed your writing?

Many people experience writing How did factors like

as a complex process, involving audience, purpose, and
invention (brainstorming,
context shape your writing
fastwriting, clustering, etc.),
fieldwork/research, sketching, and the decisions you
drafting, revising, and editing. made as a writer? Analyze
How has your writing process one of your projects from
evolved as you have experimented English 1101, showing how it
with the strategies in this course? incorporates the Features of
As part of your response, be the Form* for that genre in
sure to explain how your writing
process played out in at least one
The Curious Writer.
specific project you completed in
English 1101 (such as the Profile, *Features of the Form:
the Review, the Argument, etc.). Personal Essay pp. 66-67
We encourage you to include Profile Essay p. 102
artifacts that illustrate different Review Essay pp. 142-143
points or stages in your writing Argument Essay p. 215
process. Ethnographic Essay pp. 300-302

Be thoughtful about what artifacts you include in your portfolio. As you write
your Reflective Statement, reference your artifacts in specific ways. Include
only artifacts that you have discussed in your statement.