Reflective Essay for ChapbookEnglish 323 To help you assess your own progress this term, and to help you (and others like you) think about the job of being a writer, you'll include in your chapbook a short, a roughly 3-page double-spaced essay about your "writer's identity." This essay would probably best fit as the final item in your book. Provide a good title for your essay. Examples:
The purpose of this assignment is to: 1) to help you absorb, understand, and evaluate what you've learned this term; 2) to help your instructor evaluate your progress; 3) to help you contemplate what it means to be "a writer"--casually or professionally--and a participant in contemporary fine arts. Try, if you can, to make the essay fit logically as a final item in your book.
Your specific audience for this essay is other beginning writers who are interested in what it means to write creatively, how one grows as a writer, and how a college course may affect one's identity as a writer. Here are some questions you might consider responding to:
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