Portfolio Cover Letter
Over the past 11 weeks we have been given different writing prompts, for my portfolio I chose my favorite 4 pieces. The first piece I chose to share is my personal narrative. I chose my personal narrative as my first piece of writing because I think it gives the reader a good idea of who I am as a person and also as a writer. This narrative gives the reader an in-depth look at one of the most important times in my life. I think it shows the kind of emotion and thought I put into my pieces of writing. I was able to express my thoughts and feelings about my father’s passing and the things that happened after through this writing. I enjoyed this narrative because I was able to take this important time in my life and get
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The topic I chose for my cause and effect essay was on the heroin epidemic. I think the heroin epidemic is affecting almost everyone in some way. Whether it be a distant cousin using heroin or someone in your immediate family, we almost all know someone of someone using. We see and hear about this epidemic every day on the news or on social media. Currently working in the medical field I see how much of an impact drug use has had on our local community, and it’s something I will continue to see after I get my RN. As a nation we have started to shift our thoughts on this addiction, instead of treating addicts like criminals we have started to treat them as though they have a disease. I think this was an important topic to write about because it relates to my nursing …show more content…
I chose to include this piece of writing because it was an article that I could relate to, and agreed with. This article talks about how important it is for a man to be in their child lives and why it’s so important. The points made in this article I think are very important for everyone to understand. The last piece of writing I chose to include in my portfolio was a discussion forum on my persuasive essay. In this discussion forum I shared a paragraph from my paper, the paragraph I chose has some of the most important facts and supporting evidence for my paper. I think a free college education should be available to everyone. I think after reading through my portfolio you will have a better idea of who I am and how passionate I am about the pieces I
The first media text I chose to create for my portfolio is a blog post because there is no specific instruction to follow as I’m am able to write in my own personal opinion. Writing a blog post allows me to be more creative with my ideas to add in my response. Also I’ve wrote tons of blog post over the course of this semester, so I’ve learned what to have in my post making
In order to achieve a good essay, one must defend his argument and use data and research to back their argument. In “There’s No Justice in the War on Drugs”, Milton Friedman talks about the injustice of drugs and the harsh reality of being addicted to drugs, and the causes or side effects that come along with them. The author clearly argues about the “war on drugs” and uses analysis and facts to prove his argument. The author agrees that the use of government to keep kids away from drugs should be enforced, but the use of government to keep adults away from drugs, should not be enforced. The author has a clear side of his argument and the audience can clearly see that. He argues against the “war on drugs” claim that President Richard
Although a personal statement is supposed to be mine, in the back of my head, I was thinking that an admission officer would look at this sheet of paper I had written and base my admission on it. Then I felt that although this was supposed to be my story, it was not really what I wanted to say because the purpose was to please someone else. At a certain point, all creativity was gone and my only goal was to have a perfect personal statement. The need to have a perfect personal statement did not allow me to write an essay that was truly me. I already had my mind set that I was going to write what I thought the reader wanted to hear instead of what I truly wanted. I decided, however, that although the two questions of “Is it good?” and “Does this suck?” Barry presents would haunt me for the rest of my life, if my personal statement was not truly me, then I was getting into schools for the wrong reasons. It was surprising how, for so long, I struggled writing this life-altering essay and when I just let it go, and started writing without worrying about perfectionism, I “…was both there and not there… and the lines made a picture and the picture made a story” (124). I was able to write an essay that mattered to me as opposed to something that was a misguided version of myself.
There are many things that have molded me into the person I am today such as being born into a family with four children. With three siblings, I have been forced to be able to work out problems from stealing each other’s toys to having to rush to the emergency room to get stiches because my brother chased me around the house and I tripped. My mother, father, brother, and two sisters were all born in Pennsylvania and I am the odd ball and I was born in Adrian, Michigan. From when I was a child I always loved being involved with sports because of my competitive nature. I grew up playing soccer and having success with that but then my love changed and I began playing lacrosse and football. I started playing lacrosse in middle school and played
Day after day we read in the newspapers and about the political turmoil and the candidates and email and the struggle of American politics. I strive to read more than just those articles, since I want to learn about the real struggles of the American people. I want to learn about the bigger problems behind the scenes in the US and what can be done to help. This was the reasoning for the choice of my article for this week’s critique on addiction and the story of Amanda with a heat wrenching addition to Heroin and her journey through it all.
Throughout this semester I have written several essays and journals using techniques both important and unfamiliar to me. This class helped me use these techniques and steps that are involved in creating and formalizing an essay. The writing process of an essay includes information gathering, creating ideas, and writing it on paper to create a cohesive and organized paper. In complete certainty I can say I lack many of the skills necessary to create such a paper, but during this course I have learned some writing methods which I believe have improved my essays. The essays and journals in this portfolio reveal both my strengths and weaknesses in my writing and how I have both continued to make the same errors and improved in other areas.
Within my fifteen and a half years of living, I have experienced many heart wrenching moments that have changed who I am, so many that I stopped trying to keep count long ago. Like most teenagers, the past couple of years have been some of the most confusing, hectic years of my life. I'm at that age I'm trying to figure out who I am, as well as who I want to become. As indecisive as I am, I will more than likely change my mind a time or two, but right now at this very moment, I've finally come to terms with who I really am, and what I would like to do for the rest of my life.
The story of my history as a writer is a very long one. My writing has come full circle. I have changed very much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I discovered more aspects of my own personality. The growth that I see when I look back is incredible, and it all seems to revolve around my emotions. I have always been a very emotional girl who feels things keenly. All of my truly memorable writing, looking back, has come from experiences that struck a chord with my developing self. This assignment has opened my eyes, despite my initial difficulty in writing it. When I was asked to write down my earliest memory of writing, at first I drew a blank. All of a sudden, it became very clear to me, probably because it had some childhood trauma associated with it.
It was also one of my favorites. I loved how you got to use your own creativity for this paper and didn’t have to follow any specific guidelines. It lets people, including myself, show their creativity, story making side. Although I hate writing, I enjoyed being able to brainstorm and create my own personal story that is exactly how I want it to be. This essay, surprisingly, took me more than a couple hours to do. I did not wait until the absolute last minute to type this essay. Instead, I took my time and did a little day by day, giving myself more time to think and expand the creativity of the paper. During this paper I had mastered the ability to create my own fictional story that appeals to almost all audiences. The only thing within this story that I was having problem with was detail. When I read or write something, I don’t expect a lot of detail. I’d rather imagine the scenario in my head than explain it in a specific way on paper. Although it was not easy for me, I believe I did a decent job on adding sensory
I was fifteen when it all began; the laughing, taunting, teasing, the confusion. It wasn’t always like this. I used to be happy.
In this portfolio reflection essay I will be addressing the five essays I have written for my English 101 class. Along with addressing the five essays I have wrote I also will be stating my strengths and weaknesses of those essays. The five essays this portfolio will include is a diagnostic essay, revised narrative essay, profile essay, evaluation essay, and arguing a position essay. Those five essays I have written over the course of this semester have been very helpful towards my writing skills. Punctuating, staying on topic, my introductions, and conclusions are areas I struggle with when writing papers, but by writing those five papers during this semester has helped me improve on those areas.
My portfolio absolutely reflects my understanding of persuasive writing. Persuasive writing is the ability to use certain word choices in order to convince an audience to agree, or a least grasp, the topic that is being written about. My portfolio represents the goals and objectives of persuasive writing. The essays I have written for this course demonstrate that I have certainly developed my critical thinking skills, and also developed, or better yet, mastered my communication and personal responsibility skills; but, because terms of my lack of paraphrasing and analysis, my writing process is not perfected.
Throughout the semester, I’ve learned many stylistic techniques and felt more confident and expressive in my writing. All my pieces in the portfolio revolve around my personal identity, which I had not intended in the beginning. I wrote about a significant childhood memory, a long lost beloved place, the topic of animal rights, and a consistent pattern I’ve noticed that has shaped my outlook on my life and on myself. These were stories that many people do not know about me, so it meant a lot that I could craft essays on these experiences and illustrate how they truly matter to me. In all of these essays, I wanted to convey vivid and genuine details to allow my audience to empathize, grow, and learn with me. Through incorporating forceful diction
In order to do that, I had to describe why this topic affected me. These capabilities that I have are ones I was able to develop over the course of this semester. Now that I can recognize my skills, I can focus on how to improve these skills even more. Even though I’m good at poetry, description, and narration, I can still build and improve these skills.
The time to breathe before advancing further in my future projects, the difficult moments instead of discouraging me, these moments give me motivation and the necessary energy to move forward. I am optimist but realistic. My parents taught me that we live in a world that is constantly changing and to succeed we need a smart plan and the ability to adapt and adjust to the changing world environment but more importantly one need to prepare one’s self to succeed. We need discipline and above all an unshakable will to resist difficulties when they happen. “An ongoing work of art” would probably be one of the best ways to describe my life. From very early on in life, I have learn that I can be the artist of my own life through guidance and hard work, I learned that we are the architecture of our life, the artist of our own destiny through work, commitment and determination. Every route taken or not taken will somehow impact our existence and leave a trail like a shooting star in the night sky, the beauty of the trail depends entirely on the nature of our actions in life. This is the first time in my existence I have had the opportunity to write the story of my life in detail. This exercise