Writing Proficiency Requirement Reflection letter

The Reflection Letter

The only new piece of writing you are required to complete is a reflection letter. Your EWRAP evaluators assume youll choose the essays in your portfolio for specific reasons but they wont know what those reasons are. Thus, theyre asking you to explain those reasons in a letter.

In this reflection, youll do two things:

1. Youll help your readers see the essays the way that you see them
2. Youll reflect on your development as a critical thinker, reader, and writer. In both respects, your reflection will help your readers understand your portfolio.

What Do I Write About in the Reflection Letter?

Look at the Criteria of Writing Proficiency. Then, tell us which essay best demonstrates the criteria (in other words: which essay do you think is your
strongest work?). Please explain why this is your strongest essay, and how it best represents your capabilities as a writer. Specifically:

Tell us the position that you take in this essay, and why you took this position.
Tell us what was the most convincing evidence you used in support of that position and why.

Tell us any other aspect of this essay that youre proud of.

hen, explain how the essay you discussed above (your strongest work) is different from the other essays in your portfolio. You might consider:

Are these differences the result of a different audience, purpose, or context for the essays?
Are some differences because these are different types of essays?
Do the differences represent changes in your writing skill?

Then, please discuss your portfolio in terms of your growth as a writer. Specifically:

Tell us how these essays demonstrate your growth as a writer.
Or, if youd prefer, tell us how these essays reveal to you what youd still like to work on as a writer. Either way, refer to specific examples within your essays to help you explain this.