Alan Taylor asks his Writing 2/3 students to write a weekly post reflecting on their labor in the course; in Writing 3, these posts live on students' portfolio sites, and students use the posts for lots of goals: to extract memorable ideas from course materials, draw connections across learning experiences, formalize knowledge about their writing process, and more.
Alan shares the assignment as it appeared in his syllabus in a recent course: End-of-Week Journal Reflection.