An Evaluation of Instruction for
Unit 3: The Analytical Paragraph
(Return to Unit 3)

Please evaluate the unit on analytical paragraphs as a means for (1) assisting your instruction of other units in this course and (2) providing information that will help your instructor to improve materials and teaching of those materials in later semesters. Please place an appropriate number beside each statement based upon the following criteria:

5 - strongly agree 
4 - agree 
3 - not sure 
2 - disagree 
1 - strongly disagree 
[blank] - no opinion/not applicable

_____ 1. The objectives for learning in this unit are clear. 
_____ 2. During this unit, you have been able to create, draft, revise, and edit appropriately analytical paragraphs. 
_____ 3. You have been able to write successfully for an audience other than your instructor. 
_____ 4. You have written successfully for a variety of purposes.
_____ 5. On written assignments in this unit, you have been able to adapt your language, sentence structure, and organization to fit the audience, purpose, and topic of the writing tasks.
_____ 6. In your written assignments, you have been able to focus on a central idea (thesis) that controls and unifies the three paragraph units. 
_____ 7. You have been able to support your ideas with details that will make them clear. 
_____ 8. In the written assignment, you have been able to identify the main ideas and supporting details in a reading selection from professional writing that made them clearer.
_____ 9. In the magazine article and examples, you have been able to analyze how professional writers achieve their purposes.
_____ 10. You have been able to produce writing based upon your synthesis of written materials with your own knowledge and opinions.
_____ 11. You have been able to locate and evaluate sources for writing tasks.
_____ 12. You have been able to demonstrate preliminary research skills including summary, paraphrase, synthesis, and documentation of information.
_____ 13. You are better able to analyze, question, and document information.
_____ 14. You now understand more fully the relationship between oral and written communication.
_____ 15. Through written exercises in this unit, you have developed more confidence as a writer.
_____ 16. The instruction for each assignment was clear and thorough.
_____ 17. You feel more comfortable as a writer.
_____ 18. You have felt free to ask your instructor for assistance.
_____ 19. Revision of some assignments has helped you to improve as a writer.
_____ 20. Your instructor makes you want to improve as a writer.

_____ 21. Online Resources your instructor has provided have helped to clarify writing principles.
_____ 22. Your instructor has returned work in a timely period.
_____ 23. The Learning Skills Center or some other learning center has helped you with assignments in this course.
_____ 24. You better understand the value of writing in your life as a way to learn, record, communicate, and understand.

Please respond to the following questions:

(1) What has been the strongest feature of this unit?

(2) What has been the weakest feature of this unit?

(3) What would you suggest as an improvement for this unit?


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