Discussion audit

Halfway through the semester, students will compile, review, and reflect upon their discussion posts.

• Begin by compiling and reading all of your posts. As you reread them, take notes, critically reading your entries as if they were written by somebody else—or at the very least, recognizing that they were written by a different you at a different time. Include this compilation in your submission. You may emend your earlier posts to reflect changes in your knowledge or opinion, so long as you identify later comments by a different font or color.
• Compose a two-page response that analyzes and reflects on your posts. This response is open-ended and the exact content is up to you, although it should be thoughtful and directed. You should quote briefly from your own posts and refer to specific ideas from the readings we have studied so far.
• Questions to consider include but are not limited to: What do you usually write about in your posts? Are there broad themes or specific concerns that reoccur in your writing? Has the nature of your posts changed since the start of the course? What changes do you notice, and how might you account for those changes? What surprised you as you reread your work? What ideas or threads in your posts do you see as worth revisiting? What else do you notice? What aspects of the discussion posts do you value most, and how does it show up in your work?

As always, written work for this class should be formatted according to the writing requirements.