Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Hi Class

From elementary school to high school, I was taught that my writing had to be structured and follow strict criteria. After I arrived in Mr. Mukherjee’s ENG 102 class, I was given the opportunity to express my creative freedom through words and graphical pictures. It can often be difficult and challenging to improve upon my own writing abilities unless motived with an idea in mind. When looking back on my time at ASU, I thought about the goals that I wanted to address for myself and the course goals that my instructor had set for the class. These goals include ones that I had accomplished to the best of my ability and ones that I need to address as well as improve.

In my ePortfolio, I have gathered a series of my writings that I have completed over the course of this semester. Overall in this entire course I have learned a great deal of material that has pushed me to become a better writer. From my past courses, I have noticed that I am not the strongest writer but I do try my best. With Professor Knox’s tough grading system, he has given me drive to bshow my potiential as a writer. I feel as if my knowledge has increased a significant amount on the following topics/concepts and I support each claim with the correlating artifacts 1) Writing process Artifact 1-Writing Log 3, (2) Discourse Community-Artifact 2 Assignment 2 Partner Review, (3) Rhetoric Artifact 3- Assignment 1, (4) Genre Artifact 4- Reading Notes Week 10; and (5) Critical Thinking, Reading, and Research—Artifact 5--Assignment 5. Every assignment has shaped me into a more developed writer and has prepared me more for ENG 280.

At the end of this semester, I have learned great useful skills about technical writing. The skills are very diverse that come from many lessons. Each lesson have their different distinctive features, so they have a lot of new knowledge that I do not know at first. Fortunately, I have soon realized these new knowledge are whole new valuable resources to me because they have not only helped me to obtain some learning outcomes of Salt Lake Community College but they also would be very useful in my future.

As a result of the thoroughness of this course in relation to the practice of writing about writing, I have learned a number of things that will be useful to me for the remainder of college and even beyond graduation. Through

Portfolios are more than just a folder of student work. Portfolios are samples of student work assembled to “a particular purpose” (Arter, 1990). Portfolios can be used for assessments and instructional purposes. Students can have choice when it comes to what pieces are showcased in the portfolio. Drafts can be included

The contents of this portfolio show the transitions in the revision process as I demonstrate growth. There are four papers I wrote this semester, the original and the revised one that I improved according to the instruction and feedback I received over the course of the semester. From unit one to unit four, there is a significant improve in my writing. With the feedback of each paper, I realized which areas I needed to improve and do better on the next paper. The help from writing lab also made me a better writer, but there still much more I need to improve because I am not a strong writer like my fellow classmates. The portfolio also contains artifacts that I perceive as exemplifying my development as a writer. These are my revision memos of the four papers I wrote and revised, plus a selection from my essay that I believe exemplifies my development as a writer. The last part of the portfolio is the Hupomnemata, which contains my in class writing assignments throughout this semester.

I have grown as a global citizen of area of communication.Before this semester I was very good at adjusting myself to a large crowd and speaking properly.Id always be a little scared and nervous to the point where I just completely forgot about what I was saying.Now I am able to speak and present I front of large crowds with no problem.What helped me accomplish my fear of big audiences was being able to see some of my friends present in front of big crowds.It made be want to present because if they could do it , I'm sure I could.Another thing that motivated me was my grade , I knew if I didn't present properly or if I didn't present at all,my grade was going to be on thin Ice.But now I am able to adjust myself to audiences with no hassle.My Odyssey slide show presentation is evidence of my growth.It is a slideshow presentation that relates similarities between the odyssey and over songs ,books etc,put all into short summaries.This piece of evidence shows I have grown because it shows that I'm able to present I front of big audiences with no worry ,there fore shows my progress in public speaking.

Then you need to prepare a portfolio that you will show to potential mentors. This portfolio should include a substantial number of samples of your work to show off

Creating this autobiographical portfolio was pretty difficult at first because I had not realized what I was going to write about. Initially, my project was just a lot of drafts of documents and I had to do my best to try and combine them all honestly. It was not easy at first but after all the typing was finished this project became extremely easy. It became just about getting things done and making sure they meant word count (if they had a word count). What I learned about myself as a writer is that of course I should work on becoming a better writer and work harder on making sure all my writings easily convey the message that I am trying to send. More or less I have to work hard to be less confusing and get better at putting my thoughts

This portfolio shows how I have grown as both a reader and a writer; enhancing my research skills and be able to convey them in my own words. As a reader and researcher, I was able to find the evidence through research I was looking for to support my argument. When I start off writing, I first start to write by simply answering the questions, then I slowly add on to those answers furthering my statements. By going through my own notes, evidence, even personal experience to provide a stronger argument. I also really rely on my reader's interest, bringing up interesting facts about the topic that many might not know to keep my readers attention. I also ensure these interesting facts stay on topic, but are interesting enough for the reader to

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.

This made me think critically about things I have done in order to decide what I thought was worthy of a showcase. People tend to want to think that a lot of the things they do is objectively really good. Although, sometimes that's not the case. I went through my work that I had saved from my years at college - community college and Western - and picked some of my favorite samples. I left some out that seemed irrelevant such as a few graphic design pieces from my “Communication Technologies” class that were done purely for an assignment and I had no attachment to. Then, I further filtered them by looking back at what kind of grades I got on them. For example, I liked a paper I wrote for a “Hamilton and History” class last quarter. However, after being reviewed by my professor, flaws in structure and argument were pointed out. While I like the content, the quality of the paper was lacking enough that I decided not to display it in my portfolio. I think being able to think critically about your own work helps you become a better producer overall. Anyone can have someone else critique something they did but it takes an open, objective mind to be able to pick out and admit that stuff you do is not always perfect.

In this portfolio, it consists of writing projects done this semester. My first writing piece is an opinion article discussing about DACA and the consequences of ending DACA. The next piece is a brochure done with a group on UIC Student Codes of Conduct policy. Lastly, at the bottom is a profile story written about a teacher that I interviewed.

Assembling and preparing a portfolio for any discipline can be a daunting experience. Preparing a portfolio means that there needs to be substantial evidence of the person's practice and skills developing. At the start of the portfolio experience, I felt both nervousness and determination. I knew the portfolio had to be done and I knew I wanted my portfolio to make me proud as well as score high with my instructor. I felt nervous because I put extra pressure on myself to perfect my work and eradicate any errors or flaws that were unintended or out of my control.

Throughout the course of the Creative Writing Poetry class, I feel as though I have learned a lot about the craft and my own work. This has all culminated in the completion of my portfolio and there are still various things that I have and learned and noticed while piecing it together.