Throughout the entire semester, I have written essays that have been edited many times and reviewed by my instructor. My writing has grown stronger through each paper because I have been able to expand my knowledge of writing and the skills that I have to use. The portfolio that I am putting together should be a clearly passing portfolio. My writing skills have developed to make me the strong writer that I am today and to prepare me for my writing in the future. In many of my papers I used great research techniques like, BGSU Summon and Google Scholar to find my sources and the information that I was going to use in my papers. First, using BGSU Summon really helped me find the information that I needed in my papers and it was an easy tool to use. I also used many different news articles in my papers so that I had many different viewpoints in my papers to have a strong argument for what I thought the information was about. I grew in my knowledge on how to pick sources that were credible and would be easy to cite and how to cite them correctly so that I became a better researcher for finding information for my papers now and the ones that I write in the future. I was able …show more content…
For each of the papers that I had to write this semester, I was able to Argue a Position with facts and credible sources to a group of college students that may have had a different opinion than I did. In my Arguing a Position paper I explained how having a fast food job is bad for teenagers while other people thought that a fast food job benefited teenagers. I learned how to reach my audience through this paper so that they would understand why I thought that these jobs were bad for teenagers. By doing this I was able to correctly develop a skill where no matter what kind of audience I am talking to in a paper, I will be able to clearly get my point across in an easy to understand
Everyone needs to struggle in order to preform better. Writing has always been a strength of mine, but I found it a challenge to move from the high school, six-paragraph essay format that I had grown accustomed to. Throught the course of this semester, I was able to acquire many different skills in ENG 1101 that have helped me transition into more complex writing. These include various writing techniques, MLA formatting, writing for purpose, convincing my arguments and finding and properly using sources. The portfolio I have submitted is comprised of three works of writing that I completed for ENG 1101 over the last three months.
The first essay in my portfolio is the “Non-Academic Discourse” essay. This essay was very hard for me to write because I don't have many communities outside of school so I really had to think about what I should write about. When I was writing this paper I was really trying to focus on my punctuation which has been probably the hardest thing for me to understand in English. After writing this essay, I learned that I really need to focus on many things in my writing such as my transition, punctuation, and format.
I do realize I have a lot to learn but anytime I write better than I did the essay before that is a success. So, to any future students if you are here every day and participate you will be successful this class is organized to make sure when you start writing the essays you are well prepared from all the invention techniques. I feel my style has broadened because every essay I write feels easier and more professional. My attitude about writing is better as well I am no longer afraid of writing an essay or communicating via email with another professor or some other professional resource.
Within this portfolio are the final drafts of the writings I worked on this semester in English 110. I worked on a memoir, informal and formal letter plus reflective essay, and a portfolio. When writing these pieces, I have learned a lot of good information that will be useful in the future. My writing has improved since the beginning of the semester. I always found it hard to start a paper, but throughout the semester I learned to write a few things about my topic each day until I had a great idea of what to write.
Throughout the term there has been many writing assignments —big or small— that helped reflect my writing process or the process itself. In the beginning of the course I felt like I was an “ok” writer, but lacked some skills such as: organization, sentence variety, and vocabulary. Also, I did not like to write and had a feeling of dislike when forced to write. I felt like I improved on everything I wanted and was seen throughout the semester. I know how to organize my ideas, the worksheets given in class to work on sentence variety really helped, and vocabulary was built on some level.
Throughout my whole life, I never took an interest t writing. I would only write whenever I needed to. I never thought about making it into a hobby, or tried to actually express my thoughts into words. Writing is just something that comes easy to me. If I get a subject or person to write about, I can write two pages in ten minutes because I’m able to elaborate on topics well.
My biggest weakness throughout the class what punctuation and editing. Fortunately, the pieces of work I chose for my portfolio show the pattern of improvement throughout each paper. The very first pieces of work is "Doublespeak in Politics" which I chose because it had a proper structure but few editing errors. As the order continues to "Advertisements in Business" which still holds a few editing errors but shows an improvement in punctuations. The greatest strides I took to progress was studying online examples of proper MLA papers.
ENG-122 Reflective Essay My writing process has changed tremendously over the course of this class. I feel more accomplished, confident and I feel sometimes that my ideas and thoughts just come in to my mind out of nowhere and I start writing about anything now. I pay attention to my punctuation and grammar more as I have polished them more now, not only when I write but then others write as well. I am constantly looking for errors and I highly think this is helping me a lot in my career.
Writing has always been an issue but yet interesting subject of mine. As hard as I try and write essays, and papers I just can’t get the hang of writing. But after taking this class, I did learn different writing technique and improved my writing proficiency, material body of formatting, and how to uncovering and properly use sources. Through class exams, essays, and a research paper, I was able to learn new writing skills. Although I have learned a variety of things, my writing still needs improvement.
1.1 Introduction In today’s environment, the ownership is on us, as an individual to take responsibility for our own development, rather than expecting our organization to do it for us. The question, which always ponders over mind is does my personal skills suits to today’s dynamic world? If not, how do I move forward? Hence, the starting point is to introspect, retrospect and do an evaluation through self-assessment tools in order to know myself, strengths and limitations and my ability to perform in dynamic roles in the business environment.
My Writing Experience In previous courses, my writing skills have been mediocre or just enough to pass the class. Throughout the duration of this course, I have written a variety of papers using different techniques and skills. Previously I would write assuming that the only audience would be my instructor. This course has helped me realize that there are many steps and skills involved with writing a well-organized and easy to comprehend essay.
I believe that through this past semester, my writing knowledge, and writing ability has grown significantly. I hope to continue growing my knowledge about writing throughout the rest of my days in school and the rest of my
Academic success to me is achieving good grades and understanding the material to get good grades. Academic success also means to have an good attendance. I already get mostly A’s and B’s, but I am not good at staying on top of things. To improve my academic success I will attend class more often, be more organized, pay attention in class, and not procrastinate.
My writing skills developed when I was a Customer Service Technician at VeriSign, Inc. (1997-2004). I provided customer support for telecommunication companies. My customer base included a variety of customers: e.g. long distance carriers, local telephone companies, cellular carriers, and their service providers. In this position I learn many ways to communicate in writing. I learn to write for my audience.
Mainland China has been one of the most self-reflective places that I have visited. The time that I spent within mainland China has allowed me to develop a more holistic understanding of my heritage and the differences that exists between China and the U.S. While I was originally born within the landscape of China, I never became old enough to become fully aware of the culture and the subsequent norms that are present. After growing up in the United States as a Chinese American I noticed many similarities as well as differences between how I was raised in the U.S compared with my experiences in mainland China. The strongest observation that I have made has been the westernization of mainland China especially as the nation undergoes further urbanization.