Over the past 16 weeks you have engaged many different American writers, composed all manner of literary analyses and speculations, and talked genuinely with one another about your ideas. You have been immersed! It was a lot of work!
Take a look in the mirror (metaphorically).
This last assignment is a reflection on your growth as a writer and thinker in this course. The texts you will analyze, this time, are the ones you have written about the works you have read. Your subject is yourself as a writer and thinker.
Directions:
Review your journal entries and projects for all of the writers we have looked at. It might help to print out these documents so you can read them with some slight detachment and save them, if you like, as a portfolio. It may come in handy one day. Read them slowly, and feel free to annotate them, revise them, or just comment on them as you would another’s writing.
Then, write a self assessment.
Focus Questions:
What have you learned as a critical reader and writer in this course?
How have you changed, grown, or evolved as a communicator, particularly regarding American literature 1865-1945?
Where will your writing or interests in literature take you next?
Task: Use these questions and your own reflections to compose a self-assessment as a writer (yes, a WRITER).
Requirements:
Compose an essay of at least five paragraphs (1000 words or more), using all of the elements of the academic essay. Your thesis will assert what you know, think, or feel inspired by and why. Your body paragraphs will demonstrate and develop this thesis using concrete examples for your own writing and experience, and perhaps also from the works you have read and loved the most. Your conclusion paragraph will convey the significance or upshot of this experience, so save the best for last.
reading：
-Washington and Du Bois
-Faulkner and Hemingway
-The New Negro.
-Hurston, Hughes, and Wright
-Passing
-Cannery Row
