Taking Stock of Your Writing Questions

1.        How did you go about analyzing the text? What methods did you use—and which ones were most helpful?

2.       How did you go about drafting your essay?

3.       How well did you organize your written analysis? What, if anything, could you do to make it easier to read?

4.       Did you provide sufficient evidence to support your analysis?

5.       What did you do especially well?

6.       What could still be improved?

7.       Did you use any visuals, and if so, what did they add? Could you have shown the same thing with words?

8.       How did other readers' responses influence your writing?

9.       What would you do differently next time?

10.   Are you pleased with your analysis? What did it teach you about the text you analyzed? Did it make you want to study more works by the same writer or artist?

11.   What are the transferable  skills you can take from this into other writing situations?