Your growth as a writer depends on how well you understand what you do when you write so that you can build on good habits. Reflect on some of the following questions to help you see the process that led to the creation of your essays this semester and find ways to continue improving your writing process in the future. Focus on questions that lead to significant or useful ideas that will help you in the future. Your essay should refer to specific examples from one or more of the three essays you wrote this semester.
• How would you tell the story of your thinking? Did your views on any topic change during your writing process?
• At some point in your writing, did have to choose between two or more alternatives, such as sources, organization, or different ways to begin an essay? What were they, and how did you choose?
• What was the most difficult problem you faced while writing? How did you go about trying to solve it?
• Whose advice did you seek while researching, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing? What advice did you take, and what did you ignore? Why?
