Writing Reflection

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My portfolio will demonstrate the skills and writing techniques I have developed and honed while taking the course English 1010 at the University of Memphis. Some of the techniques and skills I have learned include how to write with different persuasive strategies on the audience and how to incorporate critical thinking into my work. As well as these skills I have learned how to apply an effective composing process to my writing and have fine tuned my writing abilities. Writing with different styles on different topics has improved the way I approach writing papers. These styles helped me learn quickly, therefore making me a better writer and student at the same time.
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The first essay, “Literacy Narrative” was written towards a very general audience. Basically, a narrative is written to whoever reads the work. When I wrote the piece, I was not really focusing on who I was writing to, because the audience was so broad. I was basically telling a story about how I have progressed as a writer over the years. In a sense, I was writing more to myself than to anyone else, because I was reliving personal experiences and rekindling old memories. I was writing for self-discovery. The other part of it was that I was writing to the class members and to the professor as well, because I was telling the story of my life as a writer to other writers who might benefit from the things that I learned. In my next essay piece, “discourse community of vaping”, I was writing to a more limited audience. This piece was very simple and unique. The reason why it was so simple and easy to explain was because I was in the vaping discourse community, and I was prepared since my professor explained the topic thoroughly. Finally, the third piece, “Writing Research” I wrote in a more thorough fashion, to explain how writing by hand and typing have pros and cons. I was writing with those in mind that possibly have had experience with writing books, especially authors and major writers. I included these pieces in my portfolio of this

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