27 Mar A reflection report is self-directed—meaning you will choose the topic—brief, informal, mini-essay. The goal is to have you investigate and research something you were interested in—or bring up a new question and provide an answer to it
A reflection report is self-directed—meaning you will choose the topic—brief, informal,
mini-essay. The goal is to have you investigate and research something you were interested
in—or bring up a new question and provide an answer to it.
Criteria
● Informal—but don’t be TOO casual.
● MLA format—but I won’t grade too harshly. Just make it readable, please!
● 1-2 pages. You should think “one page” and I mean one page. Not half a page, not
2/3rds. Not 1.5 pages. One page. Your paper must not be any length over 2 pages.
Roughly this means 250-500 words (250 words is about 1 page).
● I want these papers to be short and concise.
● You must use 1-3 new sources (the textbook counts).
● These are basically your mini-quizzes at the end of each unit and they should show
some accumulated knowledge/understanding.
● Do not summarize. Any summary should be short and sweet—we don’t want a retelling
of everything we just learned. Summary should only exist to contextualize the actual
paper.
Examples
● Take one of the discussion questions and expand it to a full page.
● Take something you were interested in and ask/answer questions about it (“I was really
into the Roman army and wanted to know X” or “I really like Greek gods and wanted to
know Y” etc).
● Take a question asked by the professor in response to a discussion board post and
expand your answer.
● Anything else at the professor’s discretion (ask me before you start!)
