For this reflective assignment, you will write a letter to yourself about your argument paper with a particular emphasis on the key terms audience and purpose as well as how the way you view writing may have changed after writing the argument paper. Write this reflection in the form of a letter in which you are giving advice to yourself as a writer. }
Your letter should include some discussion of:
How your awareness and perception of your audience and purpose contributed to your writing. (For example, did you have a real-world audience in mind for this purpose or did you have to “imagine” an audience? How did that audience’s possible stances, values, knowledge, etc. affect your approach to supporting your argument? Would writing for this same audience but with a different purpose, such as to inform or analyze, alter your writing choices, such as tone and word choice?)
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How your experiences with the previous papers this semester affected your writing and your writing process for this paper. (For example, what did you bring with you from those papers that you found helpful – or perhaps unhelpful – for this one? What might you use or not use in the future?)
Use examples from your argumentative paper as well as the mentor text (“Ten Ways to Think About Writing”) and any other readings from this semester to support your discussion of the above two points.
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