Asian American Literature

Just like your midterm blog portfolio, your final blog portfolio will consist of three parts:

1. A numbered list of all of your blog posts, with titles of the post (22 TOTAL)
2. A numbered list of your sets of comments. Include the date posted, the title of the post, and the name of the person’s blog on which they’re posted (11 sets, or 22 total)
3. A reflective essay that uses information from your posts and comments

Your reflective essay is designed to surface and articulate what you’ve learned over the course of the semester by looking back on and analyzing your own writing during this time. Your essay should answer either or both of these questions:

What have you learned about Asian Americans over the course of the semester?
AND/OR
What have you learned about yourself as a reader, writer, and thinker over the course of this class?

To answer these, you should refer to the writing that you’ve produced over the course of the semester: your blog posts and comments, your exam, your paper. With the above questions in mind, read back over your writing and locate particular sentences and passages that attest to your learning. In your paper, you’ll quote these and analyze them. In what ways do they show what and how your ideas have changed? What terms, concepts, and phrases provide evidence of the complex ways that your thinking has progressed and shifted over the course of the semester? How do they provide evidence that you can use to answer the questions above?I’m looking for a deep engagement with your own writing here. For that reason, please plan to use no more than six quotations or short passages from your writing for the essay.

TIPS:

• Please provide an introduction that contains your main idea(s). [Example: in this paper, I'll show how I focused on the ideas of immigration and identity throughout the semester. This affected both the ways that I thought about Asian Americans and the ways that I think about myself as an American citizen.]
• You may, of course, use the “I” voice in your paper.
• You may feel free to use a chronological approach (ex., “when I first started this class, I thought Asian Americans were ____. My first blog post contains this comment: “______.” Here, you can see the ways that I was dedicated to x idea. All I could associate with x idea was___. In a blog post three weeks later, however, there is a marked shift in my language and tone. “______…”). You may also choose a different kind of structure if it makes sense to you (you could arrange it by theme: “these three quotes show the ways that my thinking changed about Asian America. These two show the ways that I am a writer that needs a number of drafts to shape a complicated argument”.)
• Be as specific as possible.
• Concentrate on a comprehensive analysis of your passages, just as you did in your paper.

FINAL BLOG PORTFOLIO DUE MONDAY, 4/28 IN CLASS

Portfolio will be graded as follows:

2 points for each blog post: 44 possible

1 point for each set of comments: 11 possible

Reflective essay: 45 points possible

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