Learning Outcomes

• Explain what they have learned from being a novice in new writing situations, and describe how these experiences, which might include failure, contribute to their willingness to accept new challenges as a writer.

• Identify how their views of writing have changed as a result of the work they have done in the course.

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Habits of Mind

• Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to use what they learn from reflections on one writing project to improve writing on subsequent projects.

• Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to act on the understanding that learning is shared among the writer and others—students, instructors, and the institution, as well as those engaged in the questions and/or fields in which the writer is interested.

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Key Terms

• Composing Processes: planning, researching, drafting, sharing and responding, revising, editing, publishing, reflecting​​

• Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion