ES1103 Chap.11 Explaining Your Writing Process in Conversation
Explaining Your Writing Process in Conversation
An assessment about process
The third continuous assessment is a graded academic conversation of eight to ten minutes between you and your tutor, held in Week 12 or Week 13 and worth 15% of the course grade. The course introduces it as a way of ensuring the rigour of the writing process.
You respond to questions about the thinking behind your argumentative essay, which the task frames as self-awareness, self-regulation and self-evaluation.
Preparing for it
The preparation prompt asks you to review your final argumentative essay and reflect on the whole process: the challenges you faced, the solutions you devised, and your own observations of the strengths and limitations of both the process and the finished essay.
The Week 11 round-up tutorial rehearses the same ground with four discussion questions: which academic language features or tools helped you improve, which are still difficult and why, how your writing has changed since the start of the course, and which features could transfer to writing in your own discipline.
How it is judged
The rubric has three criteria.
Self-awareness of the learning process, worth 30%, looks for strong awareness of the argumentative genre and its conventions, such as evidence-based reasoning and stance-taking. Self-regulation of the learning process, worth 40%, looks for a clear explanation of how problems in the writing were identified and addressed.
Self-evaluation of your own work, worth 30%, looks for a critical judgement of how the essay met the requirements, including strengths and limitations. The top band for each criterion describes explanations that are thorough, well supported and given without much probing.
The lowest band covers exceptional cases, including inability to articulate ideas despite extensive probing or extra time, and non-attendance without a documented reason.
The practical arrangements
Your tutor explains how to sign up for a slot. Before the session you complete a declaration form. The conversation is one-to-one and in person, and you wait quietly outside the room until called.
You record the conversation on your own laptop, tablet or phone and upload the recording to the submission folder by the end of the same day, named according to the template in the task. Each class is split so that half meet in Week 12 and half in Week 13, and classes affected by the Deepavali public holiday follow the tutor's make-up arrangement.
What this chapter covers
- 01
The purpose and format of the one-to-one academic conversation
- 02
Reflecting on challenges, solutions, strengths and limitations
- 03
Self-awareness, self-regulation and self-evaluation criteria
- 04
What answering without much probing means in practice
- 05
Sign-up, declaration form, recording and upload on the day
Worked example · free
Turning a vague answer into a strong one
- 1Name one specific problem.
- 1Explain how you identified it.
- 1Describe the change you made.
- 1Evaluate the effect honestly.
Key terms
- Academic Conversation
- The graded one-to-one discussion with a tutor about the thinking process behind the argumentative essay.
- Self-Awareness
- Understanding of the genre and conventions you were writing in, such as evidence-based reasoning and stance-taking.
- Self-Evaluation
- A critical judgement of how well your finished work met the task, including its strengths and limitations.
- Probing
- Follow-up questions a tutor asks when an answer lacks depth; the top band needs little of it.
- Metacognitive Awareness
- Awareness of your own thinking and learning, the stated objective of the course round-up tutorial.
Explaining Your Writing Process in Conversation FAQ
What will I be asked in the academic conversation?
Questions about the thinking process behind your argumentative essay, organised around self-awareness, self-regulation and self-evaluation. Expect to explain the genre choices you made, the problems you met and how you solved them, and how well the final essay meets the task.
How should I prepare for the conversation?
Reread your final essay, then note the challenges you faced, the solutions you tried, and the strengths and limitations of the process and the essay. Prepare specific examples tied to particular paragraphs or sentences, since vague answers invite probing.
Why is self-regulation worth the most?
At 40% it is the heaviest criterion because it captures whether you can identify a problem in your own writing and fix it, the skill the whole course is built to develop. Clear, specific accounts of revision earn this criterion.
Do I need to bring anything to the session?
A device that can record audio, because you record the conversation yourself and upload it the same day. You also need to have completed the declaration form beforehand and signed up for a slot as your tutor instructs.
Assessment move
Keep a short revision diary while writing the argumentative essay: one line each time you change something important, with the reason. Before the conversation, pick the three entries with the clearest before-and-after difference and practise telling them aloud in under a minute each.
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