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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