Compose a multi-paragraph reflective essay that explains your experience this 8-week semester as a 
reader, 
writer, and 
thinker.  Through the act of reflection, you can understand more about your progress, what you understand, and what you need to work on in the future.   

*Generating Ideas

The following questions will help you brainstorm what to write. Use these questions to spark ideas that will help you develop a thesis and body paragraphs.

· What readings and/or discussions changed or challenged your way of thinking? How so?

· What readings and/or discussions had a profound effect on you and why?

· What are your strengths as a writer, reader, and thinker and why?

· In what area did you improve the most and why? What improvement(s) did you make?

· In what areas would you like to continue to strengthen your knowledge or skills and why?

· Which CONNECT activity challenged you the most as a reader, writer, or thinker?

· What was the one most useful or meaningful things you learned this semester? Why was it meaningful?

· What one assignment for this course was your best work? What makes it your best work? What did you learn by creating it? What does it say about you as a writer, reader and thinker?

· What assignment was the most challenging for you and why?

Thesis Statement

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Summary and/or Concluding Remarks