[Name]

[Date]

Cause & Effect Essay Personal Reflection

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You will produce a final revised copy of your cause and effect piece to hand in. In addition

to this, you need to type a personal reflection of this piece of writing. It needs to be at least one

full page in length, but no longer than two. Please follow the Heading info in the top right corner

and the bolded title, above. Please single space and use 12 point font. Please proofread!

Your reflection piece should be in paragraph form. You should discuss what you learned

about yourself as a writer and what you learned about your writing skills after analyzing your

cause and effect essay.

You must address the following bulleted items:

Provide a response to creating this essay as a collaborative effort with a partner(s). What was

your role/explain your writing contributions to the essay? What were the advantages of

working with a partner? What were the challenges? Would you like to write collaboratively

again or would you prefer to write independently?

Tell Mrs. Mixdorf the ways your essay improved from the fused draft. You need to provide

enough detailed information to earn full points for the improvement of your paper from fused

draft to final copy. Be specific and use examples.

Identify your thesis. Was it challenging to create a thesis for this type of essay?

How do you know that you indeed have a cause-and-effect essay? What evidence do you

have in your piece of writing? Why did you decide on causes/effects/or both? Why? Did you

take steps to avoid Post Hoc reasoning? Do you explore main causes/effects as well as

contributory causes/effects? Do you point out immediate causes and remote causes? Explain.

Do you feel like you are strong at this type of writing, or do you feel like you have some

weaknesses to strengthen with this form of writing? Do you think you elaborated enough?

When looking over the six traits of writing (the pink handout) where do you see your

strengths as shown through this particular piece of writing? Where do you see a need for

improvement? What evidence (or lack of) do you have in your paper that backs up your

opinion? How did working collaboratively with a partner assist you with the six traits?

Quote two or three of your favorite phrases or sentences from your paper and explain why

you like them. Be specific! Does it give the reader a specific clear map to follow? Do you

have a particularly exceptional sentence with strong word choice?

Assess how well you have carried over skills and strategies from previous essays into this

essay. Did you use any narration, description, or exemplification in your writing? Explain.

Some other ideas you may incorporate in your personal reflection include:

Comment on your use of transitions. Did these come naturally to you as you wrote your

process, or did you have to insert them when you were revising?

Give an objective review where you concentrate on the concrete items you like or dislike in

your paper. Perhaps you have several misspelled words or your peer reviewers identified

fragments or run-ons.

Give a subjective review where you concentrate on your opinion of the piece. Do you like

reading this cause and effect essay? Why or why not?

Write about other realizations you’ve had about yourself as a writer, about the writing

process, and/or about peer reviews these past two months.

[Name]

[Date]

Cause & Effect Essay Personal Reflection

(over)

Name _____________________________________

Cause and Effect Essay Turn In Instructions

Final Draft: Use the Formatting Guidelines:

Times New Roman font, 12 point, one inch margins

Header (last names page #)

Double Space

Heading

Title your essay. Center the title

Paper clip the following items together in this order from top to bottom:

1. Blue “Cause and Effect Personal Reflection” sheet (this paper)

2. Typed and Printed Cause and Effect Personal Reflections – one from each writer

Attached shared in Google Classroom via Google Docs REQUIRED

3. Final typed Cause and Effect Essay

Attached shared in Google Classroom via Google Docs REQUIRED

4. Typed Rough Draft (used during Peer Reviews)

5. Listening Response handout(s)

6. Both Written Peer Reviews, including annotated drafts

*Don’t turn in; Mrs. Mixdorf will check these:

Prewriting Graphic Organizer

Initial Rough Draft