My Portfolio Is A Reflection Of The Two Best

The challenging component this semester was the transition from high school English reading and writing level to college level. It is mainly because High school writing did not have many expectations from students, its main focus was on the ideal five-paragraph essays. As compared to college, writing is mainly geared and focused on one’s ability to thoroughly answer the assigned prompt. Initially, I was not sure if I was capable of handling a fast-paced course, however, I quickly adjusted to the change and I am glad that I chose to stay. In English 10, I have learned many valuable elements that I can incorporate into my everyday writing. I have included my writing from project 2 a rhetorical analysis on, “Black Lives Matter”, which effectively demonstrates my growth as a reader, thinker, and writer.

In order to have an interesting essay it is important to grab the attention of the audience. This semester I learned that audiences determine lots of parts an essay has. Mainly, rhetorical strategies are the easiest ways to grab the attention of audiences. Pathos, ethos, and logos are all strategies that appeal to different groups of people and different kinds of subjects. For example, in my essay Image Analysis of EKBURG.RU’s Advertisement “Think of Both Sides” I target my audience with appeals. Pathos is my main appeal. I hope to analyze the image, but also help the audience understand the deep meaning in this advertisement. I use a picture and facts to appeal to the emotions of the audience and grab their attention. My audience is targeted to people driving over the holiday and anyone with a child because that is the main focus of the analyzed ad. I also wrote in a very serious manner because this is a serious subject. Clearly, this audience is of an older age to understand the meaning of my essay. Throughout my essays this semester I stick to a purpose and have always learned to direct my attention back to that purpose. In order to write with a purpose my purpose must be clear and explained throughout my essay. One way I make sure my purpose is clear is through a thesis sentence. I have learned how to properly create a thesis sentence through this course and to explain my thesis through steps in each paragraph, then sum it up at the end with a conclusion. For example, in

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

I have improved very much in my writing process over this semester. I have grown as a writer in each writing process step such as prewriting, drafting, revising and editing, and overall. Outlining, writing a good thesis, getting peer reviewed, and giving myself plenty of time to finish a paper are new strengths that I have learned over the semester. I will reflect on all the topics in the writing process and my growth in argumentation essays. In fact, my previous attitude and feelings about writing was that I disliked it, and I knew that it was a weakness of mine. Now, I feel that I can write a strong argumentation essay. I have the sense that I have progressed a considerable amount from my first essay to my last.

Throughout the school year of 2015-2016 at the Founders Academy, I have wrote numerous essays, with generally positive results. Several of the essays exceeded expectations, while others reached expectations to a modest extent, but all of the essays were supported by the writing skills that I had learned that year, regardless of my strengths or weaknesses with these skills. These techniques vary extensively, from comparing and contrasting ideas in a text to editing and revising essays for quality results, which is proven in my writing portfolio.

In this portfolio it will show a range of work that was completed in English 111. You will find a table of contents so you can locate each piece of work easily. There will be a sample of a writing from my religion class that I have previously taken. This writing is a research paper. The reason I chose this sample of writing is because research papers is not one of my strongest papers that I can complete but, this was an easier research paper because of the topic that it was on and I could use any source I wanted to as long as it was not Wikipedia. Also, you will find samples of each writing assignment that was completed in this course: Narration Essay, Comparison/Contrast Essay, and Argumentative Research Essay, along with some revisions

This portfolio is a great example of how I improved as a writer. This second semester of duel enrollment English has helped me improve not only on becoming a better writer but as well as becoming more mature as a person and has helped me with time management. This portfolio includes the three best pieces that I have written this whole year. I hope you enjoy these pieces as much as I enjoy them.

In this portfolio it reflects my strengths and weaknesses in my writing in WRC 1013. This portfolio reflects my understanding of informative writing by the use of evidence showing my lack of elaborating and also using a wider more collengent vocabulary. It also shows evidence of the use of my extended imagination and also my great decision making skills in my finding more interesting topics to right on. This essay shows that my skills in decision making and imagination skills have improved. Although my lack of elaborating and my vapid vocabulary needs some extreme working on.

The first essay I was asked to write was an advertisement analysis. In this essay, I had to analyze an advertisement of my choice from a magazine. I chose to analyze an advertisement for the Toyota 4Runner. When my teacher first mentioned a thesis, I had no idea what she was talking about. Soon, I came to realize that a thesis was a sentence at the end of the introduction paragraph that briefly introduces the topics covered in the essay. I chose to analyze the 4Runner advertisement with the following topics: its appeal to outdoorsmen, its facts used to persuade buyers, and the lively way in which the vehicle was portrayed. I learned that each body paragraph needed to be structured around those topics, and that is exactly what I did. I found this essay to be easy to write. Furthermore, I received my highest grade of the year on this essay, only having one unclear pronoun reference and a misplaced comma.

Throughout my educational years, I had only done writings that involves in small research papers, MLA style essays, and summary essays. However, English 101 has given me a new way to look at my writing skills. Most of the writings I have been doing so far in this course were interpretative essays where we interpreted and reflected on other’s writing and then reflecting back to ours own writing. This class also has given me the opportunity to work with my classmates and a chance to discuss about the writing strategy they made in their papers versus the strategy I made in my papers. In addition, I find the in-class activity to be very useful because it allows me to see other’s perspectives and feedbacks. The in-class activities were class discussions, group works, and conference with the instructor. At the end of the semester, the class objective was to pick out two best interpretative essays that we have been working on with a final reflective essay to include in our final portfolio. So for the rest of this essay, I would like to talk about my two best interpretive essays that I have decided to include in my final portfolio: “Death of a Funeral Business”, and “No Time to think” and “Time Ain’t Money”.

In conclusion, throughout English 101 I have learned a lot about myself and my writing. Being able to express myself in my memoir, and being able to learn more about my writing process throughout my profile has taught me so much. Overall, the portfolio system proves to be a very effective way to organize all of your writing and reflect on the quarter. Suggestions for the future would be to spread out the essays a little bit more. Having the profile, reflective essay, and final portfolio all due very close to each other was stressful. However, for the most part English 101 was

Upon entering English 111, I knew I would be writing papers. However, I did not anticipate how much room I had for improvement. Throughout this term I have been enlightened with so much knowledge that I may have forgotten or have been exposed to for the first time. Certainly, my experience with essay writing has been solidified due to newfound knowledge of proper work citing, MLA standards and the steps of planning an essay. Perhaps, my time away from a learning environment slowed me down a bit, other times I feel as though I have an advantage due to life experience. An online environment has certainly been challenging but throughout the course I have provided solid work and consistent grades commendable of an A grading.

While taking this class, I have developed as a writer, arguer and college student. My writing style and organization have greatly improved this semester, as I have learned through writing several different papers. As an arguer, I have

I have always enjoyed writing, and I believed writing was a subject I was naturally good at. I turned in papers that were still rough drafts, I did not evaluate my sources, nor did I ever take the time to fully understand the prompt. It was not until my first semester of college, in my writing composition course, I realized that I had a lot of work ahead of me to be as good a writer as I thought I was. In the writing course, the students were required to compose several essays using different methods to help progress on the course objectives. The work in this portfolio demonstrates that I have used the methods of synthesis and evaluation of sources to advance my critical thinking skills and develop personal responsibility. Though I have

This first semester at the University of Akron has flown by. I learned many new writing concepts that helped me become a better writer. English composition was a required class that I had to take in order to get my degree. Although this class was required I still wanted to take this class to become more knowledgeable about writing. Coming into English Composition I was worried about all of the papers and the workload that I would have to complete. I knew that I was going to have to write a lot more than I previously had in highschool, but I was unsure of just how much. The works that I decided to include in my portfolio comprise of my Literacy Narrative, Image Analysis Paper, and essay titled Mayas Hardships based on Maya’s experiences in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I selected these works because I felt that they are the ones that require the most improvement to them. The papers i've chosen show how far I’ve came In English Composition.