Assignment: After an intensive semester of reading, Writing, grammar, and research in this classroom community , hopefully you are seeing yourself in a new light. For your final exam and for the audience of your instructor you will write a final, online class essay reflecting on your emerging identity as a reader, writer, and researcher. You will be given the prompt(How have you changed and grown as a writer during our class?) to respond.

After reading the assigned essays and considering the questions below, the thesis statement you develop with encapsulate vision you have of yourself and will citations from here. Use your experience and at lease two citations on from Stephen Covey.

Note: you may also include and cite ANYTHING else from our inside reading that we have read this semester.("The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey)

Consider:

1. How have you grown this semester?
2. What surprised you about yourself as a reader/writer?
3. What did you learn about yourself as researcher?
4. How do you think you might do research in future courses, or in your life?
5. What did you learn from others?
6. What was most motivating over the semester?
7. What models will you aim to emulate?
8. How will you continue growing?
9. How might your work as a more skillful reader/writer/researcher support your community?