Instructions for low stakes reflection

10-12 sentences (3-4 on each of the 3 elements)

Your improvement this (or desire for further improvement) in 3 elements of writing:

Thesis statement

Supporting the thesis with evidence from the literary text

Supporting the thesis with evidence from critics (secondary sources)

Use of comparison/contrast

Organizing body paragraphs--for example, use of outline

Using transitions between ideas or units of the paper

Avoiding repetition of ideas

Using topic sentences in body paragraphs (that do not merely summarize plot but interpret)

Avoiding word repetition

Using literary terms

Avoiding word waste

Increasing variety of sentence structure

word choice

Subject/verb agreement

verb endings

use of irregular verbs

use of helping verbs

run-ons

fragments

sentence-structure errors

singular/plural

punctuation in general