Professor Fernheimer

Final Reflection Assignment

This final reflective essay asks you to reflect back on the various assignments you’ve completed (and are in the process of completing) this semester, and connect what you’re learning in class to what you are learning in other courses and to what you will need to do for your future, both in academe and beyond. In this final reflective essay you are invited to discuss the following:

• What you have learned from the experience of working with your team to create a collaborative radio show/ online public exhibit addressing a specific audience for a specific purpose?
• What you have learned about audience and rhetorical situation from moving across different genre/media conventions (rhetorical analysis, scholarly essay to public argument,  indexing, audio podcast/audio essay, oral presentations, oral history, oral history interview, research, archival research/discovery).
• What have you learned about the rhetorical affordances of one medium /genre over another? How has this impacted the way you think about writing, presenting, rhetorical situation, and audience?
• You may also use this essay as an opportunity to reflect on what you have learned about your writing process, presentation skills/anxieties, and collaboration strengths/weaknesses.
• You are invited to think about the way engaging with the course material has helped you learn about academic research; Jewish culture/history/practice in KY, the US, globally; and perhaps why it is important for non-Jewish audiences to learn about this culture/history/practice and different cultural ideas and practices more generally.
• As usual, make the argument about what you’ve learned by including specific textual evidence from your assignments, your peers’ or instructor’s feedback, your work processes.

The essay should  be 1000-1250 pages long, double-spaced, and in 12 pt font. You will submit it both electronically and in hard copy.