WRTG112 Assignment 4 Reflective Essay Latest 2018 December Question # 00598723 Course Code : WRTG112 Subject: Communications Due on: 03/01/2019 Posted On: 03/01/2019 10:23 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 5.0/5

WRTG112
Introduction to Academic Writing II

Assignment
4 Reflective Essay

Instructions

Reflective Essay

Task: Explain
how the process of completing your research project has affected your
understanding of an issue or event in society.

Length: 800-1200
words

Sources: No minimum number of sources. Cite any sources you
use in APA format.

Due date and grading: This assignment is due by the end of
Week 8. It is worth 10% of your course grade and will be graded with a rubric.
To view the rubric, access the assignment from the Assignments area of the
classroom.

Outcomes you should achieve by completing this assignment

Organize information clearly in an explanatory essay (Course
outcomes 1 and 2)

Use an introduction paragraph with a thesis statement and a
concluding paragraph to frame an essay (Course outcomes 1 and 2)

Demonstrate accurate grammar and mechanics in writing
(Course outcome 3)

Topic

You began your research project by reading an article from
the news about a current issue or event in society. Your goal in this essay is
to explain to your professor how the research and writing you have done for
your research project changed your understanding of that issue or event. You
will explain what changes occurred in your understanding and how those changes
occurred.

Here are some questions you can consider in developing ideas
for your essay:

What changes occurred in your understanding?

Do you know more about the issue/event now than you did before?
(Probably!)

Do you look at the issue/event from a different perspective
following your research?

Have you reconsidered opinions or assumptions that you held
at the beginning of the semester?

How did those changes occur?

Which sources from your research had the greatest effect on
your understanding?

Did the process of writing about your topic affect the way
you thought about it?

What role did interaction with your classmates and/or
professor play in your understanding of your topic?

Organizing and supporting your essay

Your essay must include an introduction, body paragraphs,
and a conclusion.

The introduction should gain your reader’s attention, orient
the reader to your topic, and state your thesis.

The body of the essay should include focused body paragraphs
in support of your thesis statement. There are various ways you might choose to
organize information in the body of your essay. Here are some suggestions you
can consider:

You might focus each body paragraph on a step of the
research process and how that step affected your understanding of the
issue/event.

You might focus each body paragraph on your understanding at
a particular time relative to the research process (before, during, after).

You might focus each body paragraph on a particular aspect
of the issue/event and explain how your understanding of that aspect developed
during your research.

The essay’s conclusion should answer the question “So what?”
by placing the essay’s explanations into a larger context. To accomplish this,
you can consider addressing one or more of these questions:

Will your current understanding of your event/issue affect
your future actions or decisions? If so, how?

What lessons—about interpreting current events, about your
field of study, about the research process—can be drawn from the experience of
completing the research project?

Is research of the sort done in WRTG 112 a worthwhile
activity? Why or why not?

Point of view

First person (I/me/my) is appropriate in this assignment,
but second person (you/your) should be avoided.

Formatting your assignment

Incorporate these elements of APA style:

Use one-inch margins.

Double space.

Use an easy-to-read font between 10-point and 12-point.

Include a title page with the title of your paper, your
name, and the name of your school.