Final self-assessment: claims, evidence, and transfer

Select four goals across all three categories

Choose four course goals, with at least one from each category. You choose which goals your own writing can demonstrate.

• Rhetorical Knowledge: rhetorical concepts; purposeful shifts for different situations; technologies for audiences; genre conventions.
• Inquiry & Research: locating and evaluating sources; summarizing, paraphrasing, analyzing, and synthesizing; ethical use of others’ work; citation choices; viable research questions and conclusions.
• Writing Processes & Craft: multiple drafts; flexible writing strategies; useful peer feedback and its incorporation; assessing strengths and weaknesses; substantive revision.

Open the Canvas prompt for the full wording of each goal before selecting it.

Build each evaluative claim from your own work

For each selected goal, locate a passage or specific feature from your Language Autoethnography, Summary and Synthesis Project, Rhetorical Analysis, Multimodal Project, or other course work. State what it demonstrates and explain how it meets the goal. Quote and reference your own work explicitly. The instructor recommends a full body paragraph for each claim. No claim of accomplishment is established until your own evidence supports it.

Choose the final body paragraph

The prompt offers two alternatives. Discuss one outcome you could improve, identifying specific places in your work where you could have demonstrated it better. Or discuss an outcome you have transferred, or plan to transfer, to another Texas Tech course, using specific instances or a concrete future application. You do not need to invent a weakness or pretend a future application has already happened.

Frame the argument

Use a brief introduction that states your purpose and previews the claims about your writing. End with a conclusion that summarizes or looks ahead. Organize the essay around claims, evidence, and reasoning rather than a list of assignments you completed.

Apply the stated criteria and format

Review evaluative claims, supporting evidence and reasoning, organization, clear and specific prose, and intentional choices of words, register, and sentence structure. Add a title. Double-space the final draft in readable 11–12 point type. The prompt says it will likely be about four pages; that is guidance, not a stated hard word minimum.

Submit the final version

The Canvas assignment accepts a file upload. Check the final file, quotations and explicit references to your own projects, and formatting before submitting. Reopen the assignment to verify the correct version registered.