Please complete the following questions. Please take time to reflect upon each of these questions before answering them. This is worth thirty (30) points to you, so the more energy you put into it the more points you will be awarded. A paragraph for each would be warranted.

Name and Class

Answer at least three (3) of the following questions:

1. As a writer, what strengths have you gained? What weaknesses do you still need to work on?


2. What were the three most important items you learned about yourself as a student in English 101?

3. Where have you improved the most? Where do you still need to improve?

4. What do you feel best about (or proudest of) when you look back on your time in English 101?
 

5. If you were to give yourself some words of advice as a writer and as a reader/writer, what would they be?

Answer both of the following questions:

1. What do you feel you contributed to the class?


2. If you were to evaluate your overall performance in English 101, would you give yourself a grade of A, B, or C. Why?

To answer the following questions, please click on the number that feels most right to you. For example on the first question, if you the class was not too difficult, yet you did struggle at times, you should click on 4. However, if all the assignments were easy, and you had only a little trouble with comprehending the instructions given to you, click on 2.

  • How difficult was this class for you?
    (1 is a low level of difficulty and 5 is a high level of difficulty.)

    1 2 3 4 5
     

  • Did this class help you understand how to comprehend and work with a variety of reading materials?
    (1 means, "No, not at all," and 5 means, "Yes, definitely.")

    1 2 3 4 5
     

  • Would more exercises have been more helpful at the beginning of the quarter?
    (1 indicates complete disagreement; 5 indicates complete agreement.)

    1 2 3 4 5

  • ow well do you think you did overall in the class?
    (1 indicates 1.0+, 2=2+, 3=3+, 4=4.0+, 5=I'm not sure.)

    1 2 3 4 5

    Rate the following learning tools for their overall effectiveness in helping you achieve the goal of writing more efficiently and more effectively. Your answers here will help me determine which tools are working and which are not, so please think carefully and be honest.

    (The tools are not being compared to one another; I am just determining what works and what doesn't.)

    (1 indicates not very helpful; 5 indicates very helpful.)
     

  • How do you rate the effectiveness of  journals?

    1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate novel exercises?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rateLanguage Awareness as a textbook in English 101?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do rate the Beacon Handbook?
    1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate  handouts on styles and assignments?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate online learning?
    1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate  lectures about various topics, such cause and effect?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate sentence handout to increase sentence complexity?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate the library orientation?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate the process of writing as a method of understanding how a writer writes?
    1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate in-class pressure writings?
    1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate Research 1, gender and media as a class project?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate learning various ways to organize essays, such as process and compare/contrast?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate learning about feedback?
      1 2 3 4 5
  • How do you rate compiling the portfolio?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate working with a discussion board?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • How do you rate writing a reflection paper as a capstone project?
      1 2 3 4 5

  • Presuming that you have improved in writing effectively, what do you estimate is your percentage of increase in effectiveness (if any)?
      0-20% 21-40% 41-60% 61-80% 81-100%
     

  • Please comment upon any other element (if any) of the class that is not listed. The comments you make help me determine my strategies in an upcoming quarter.


    •  

    Dear Students, I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to those of you who were patient and kind to me during my times of duress this quarter. I know my human frailties were very apparent to everyone this quarter, and around mid-term, I had to make a command decision about whether it would be better to have a substitute for the rest of the quarter when another tooth became abscessed,  my mother went back into the hospital, and I was involved in a car wreck. However, only one teacher on the campus teaches writing as I do, and she already had a class at the 9:30 hour, so any teacher who would have taken over for me would have had to change absolutely everything about the class, which research tells us, is very traumatic to students. Moreover, I was very plain at the beginning of the quarter that this would be a web-based class, so I assumed everyone who stayed in the class was using the computer lab to access grades, check assignments, etc.  Thus, I decided to stay. 

    I know some of you were sorry that I did, yet those of you who continued on despite the adversity learned quite a lot. I can see it in the last papers I collected the other day, in the exercises you've turned in, and  in the questions I am being asked. Those who chose to focus on my failings instead of on the material being offered have not gained as much, I'm sorry to say.  Yet, all of us are getting ready to call it quits for this quarter, and I want to say thank you.  I have never in my entire teaching career been as scattered, depressed, and ill -- I feel very sad that you had to have me as a teacher during my time of mini-crisis; however, I know there is a power in this universe who is in charge of the whole shebang...you, me, the class, the school... I have to trust that this power was  and is taking care of all of us.  Did you suffer because I wasn't on my game at all times...I hope not. You may have become confused. You may have had to deal with ambiguity. However, I know those things happen even at the best of times.

    I guess what I am trying to say here, in a rather long-winded fashion, is thank you for standing by me when the going got tough. If I can help you as you continue through college, let me know, and I will do my best.  Good luck to you and may you experience this world in all its glory, despite confusion and order.

    Good luck to you as you trudge the wondrous road of academia,

    Dr. Jan

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