“The Meta-Essay”
Assignment
Time to write an essay about your writing—a meta-essay.  Write an essay that describes your journey, and/or you growth, as a writer this semester by pointing to specific moments in your writing throughout the semester.  Be sure to detail the challenges as well as the successes.
We’ve come a long way this semester in our thorough exploration of the elements of essay writing, of the principles of unity, development, and coherence, of audience and purpose.  The Meta-Essay asks you to revisit and to pull together what you’ve learned throughout the semester about effective writing. Specifically, the assignment is to look over your coursework and to write a clear, coherent assessment of the extent to which you grown as a writer.  In addition to your formal essays, you’ve accumulated many “artifacts,” that is, rough drafts, peer-feedback, etc.  When carefully examined, these artifacts help to tell the story of your growth as a writer in between the major milestones of the semester—the formal essays.
What are off-limits for this assignment are the instructor comments.  The goal with this piece isn’t to tell me what I’ve shared with you.  I already know what I’ve said and written about your writing.  The goal is for you to articulate thoughtfully on the decisions you made as a writer.  Instructor comments are not allowed as source material for this assignment.
Length & Format
Minimum 1,000 words
MLA format
In-text citations are not required for this assignment