Questions to Prompt Reflection

• What are the major content/critical thinking/writing issues that you have been confronted with in Honors Collab?      

• How well do you understand the content/substance of what you have been writing and thinking about in Honors Collab?

• What has been your plan or strategy that you have to address these issues in this class? Was this plan similar to the plans you have used in the past? How, and why, did you know those steps would work? Is your plan working?

• What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer and thinker? Are you a strong thinker but no so good at the follow-through? Are you best at the big picture or the details? Are you a last-minute writer or do you plan things out and stick to the plan? Do you start relatively early in the time frame given for completing a task, or relatively late? Do you go through several early drafts, or do you simply work on your text once and then turn it in?

• How well do you understand the written and verbal comments that have been provided to you? What do these comments tell you about yourself as a writer and thinker?

• What advice have you solicited to help you develop as a writer and thinker? What was/were the source(s) of this advice? What advice have you been given?

• What advice have you accepted? Rejected? Why?

• Describe the major changes that you made on your writing so far. Provide a rationale for why you have made these changes.

• How has the revision process allowed you to see content, in general, in a more sophisticated way.

• How has the writing and thinking that you have been asked to do in the past prepared you for the kinds of writing and thinking that have been asked to do for Honors Collab?
  
  And/or:
  
  How has the writing and thinking that you have been asked to do in the past NOT prepared you for the kinds of writing and thinking that you have been asked to do for Honors Collab? If you answered "yes" do this question articulate what you are being asked to do this year than is different that what you have done in the past.

• What are your goals for your next piece of writing? Where do those goals come from?

• What do you think your main goals should be as writer and thinker, given what you have experienced so far in Honors Collab? Why are these your goals?

• What is your criteria for quality work? What areas of the rubric are still unclear to you? How are you attempting to reach clarity about these areas?

• What was the most important thing you have learned about yourself as a writer and thinker so far?