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REFLECTION

My responses to the following questions are in paragraph form
and are ordered in a way that I felt flowed most smoothly (not
necessarily in order).
1. Why is it important to think about your literacy and
language practices critically? What can you learn by
doing so?
2. What do you think is the most successful part of your
paper/project? Why?
3. What are you proud of in this paper/project?
4. What part of your paper/project would you like to work
on more if you had the time? Why?
5. What do you want your reader to notice or comment on
specifically?
6. If you had to teach someone about writing based on
your experience with this project, what advice do you
have?
7. [If you did a multimodal project, please discuss why you
think the multimodal option was the best choice for you.
Why did you compose in the genre you chose?

When considering the importance of literacy and language,
it is important to note that these practices are not only an aspect
of communication, but also essential defining factors in both the
social and cultural sphere as well. Due to this fact, language and
literacy are a means by which one can explore various social
factors as well, such as socioeconomic status, race, culture,
and/or geographical background. These are the types of social
aspects that I hoped to portray through my own Literacy and
Language project. My project revolved around the motif of
revealing social assumptions that are associated with particular

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