Project #6:
Writer’s Profile: Reflection and Argumentation Website
English 105
This assignment is intended to help you reflect on how your writing, critical thinking, critical
reading, and visual literacy skills have developed over the course of the semester. It is also intended
to show your skills in developing a website that provides readers with an argument that you support
with specific written and visual text. Your audience for this project is the NAU community. The
project should highlight
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Your skills as a writer: you will need to think about your audience for this piece as well as
the purpose for writing/creating this piece.
Your understanding of rhetorical tools: you will need to consider the importance of ethos,
logos, and pathos, and how the structure of your piece will influence your readers.
Your understanding of visual literacy: you will need to think about placement of text and
graphics, font, and appropriateness of your images.
You will reflect, describe, and make an argument about your educational experiences in English 105.
The evidence for your thesis (main idea) comes from these experiences. Your argument needs to
support or reveal your experiences to your readers. If your paper is too focused on yourself instead of
your experiences, it will not be of interest to others.
Your project should include the following parts, even if you are using a different medium
(webpage):
 Introductory information: this is where you tell your readers what the reflection/argument is
about. Provide a space that focuses your reader on the specific aspects you will discuss. In
essence, you are going to create a statement (visual or in written form) of central focus
(thesis) that tells your readers why you are going to discuss this specific aspect of your English
105 experience.
 Body: this is where you provide specific detail to illustrate the importance of the educational
experience. You can write (visually enhanced) about a specific reading, an essay, a
collaboration, a lesson, an exercise you did in class, etc. Make sure that each of your main
ideas in this reflection is supported by examples (written and visual) or descriptive detail.
 Conclusion: this is where you round up your reflection and make connections to the larger
world. With this, you give your readers a sense of completion.
Length: 5-10 well-developed linked pages.
Draft due: Wednesday, 12/6 (you will have been working on this project for some time already)
Final due: Thursday, 12/7
Self-evaluation: When you submit your final draft, include a typed cover page that explains the
process: What do you think are the strengths of the project? What were the problems you ran into?
What would you do if you had more time to work on this project? Please write at least one fully
developed paragraph.
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