Meta-Analysis Essay

  1. As you reflect on yourself as a collegiate learner, what do you think your comprehension and analysis skill-level is as an academic reader? Why? What are
    your strengths? What are your weaknesses? What has helped you most this semester to achieve these skills? Are you reading differently than you had before
    taking this class? In what ways? Which assignment demonstrates your mastery of comprehension and analysis skills? How so?
  2. What does it mean to be a collegiate writer? What are some things you have learned that have improved your writing? What are you still struggle with as a
    writer? Review your pre-course and end-of-course writing sample (diagnostic). What has changed in your writing? What are you still working on? Which, if any,
    resources are you using and how have those benefitted you? Which assignment demonstrates your mastery of academic writing? Why and how so?
  3. In what ways has your ability to present in and/or to a class changed? What did you gain from these presentations? Which presentation do you feel was
    your best? Why and how so?
  4. Discuss your skills as and what it means to you to be a critical thinker. What are your strengths? Where do you see a need for improvement? Are you
    thinking about things differently than you had before taking this class? Which assignment demonstrates your mastery of critical thinking skills?
  5. Discuss your motivation this semester. What was motivating you to do the work? Why was that important and/or helpful for keeping you going? Were there
    moments when your motivation slipped? If so, what happened? How did you put yourself back on track?
  6. Discuss 2 positive classroom experiences you had during this semester. Describe the experiences in detail. What did you learn (about yourself or about
    others) from those experiences? How so?
  7. Think big picture. What do you wish you would have known about this course on Day 1? If you had to tell someone about this class, what would you say
    about this class experience. Summarize 2-3 major things you are taking away from this semester's course. How do you think these things will help you in
    other future courses?

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