(shis Copy doesnt include Quotes 7 acldecl) Madison Rowles ca ym urtec F possible. war 1108 3 ‘oe Lor ve juttihy ‘Throughout this entire semestr can honesty say have seen wring analyzed in ways had Introduction never seen t analyzed before. Along with this being my ist semester in college t was hard to make the adjustment 0 colege level writing an learn how tobalance 5 classes instead of just hike back high School Now tha the semesters coming to an ends exilarating to see all of ny hard work from the past few months come together and displayed in my final portfolio. Now have a dal record of all my progress from this semester that canbe used anytime | need it in any other couse 0, ‘school graduation in sweltering 80 degree heat and uncomfortable 5 inch 1eels.., you really want to give st : 80 we reader 2 good picture in thelr mind of what tat day was lice. During my fist draft of my exploratory UStssy had hare afimagery incuded without even cealing ito once pointed out it was easy to go back and adit in. could defintely ela iference in my paper once |induded it 0 ey avising anaGitng Geoeant During tis course we dd form of revising and editing thet | had ot previously done in other lasses from the paste dd peer elting in groups of thre's and had each person revise our paper for 1s so we could receive more feedback There has been alt of emphasis 1 per editing thisclassa “ah, s° ven FEY ree pt ces an con my wt nga been ot Pog ie BP erro pore neces msc iat a aol doing re than tone gh at, ang ml ats proved my papers ein 2 lone m veer eee ‘more. Just like that saying practice makes perfect, the mor can improve. The 10 key Concepts Early in the semester we were shown “10 key concepts” to writing that we worked on developing over this entire semester. Of these 10 concepts there were 3 distinct ones that | had some challenges with over the course of this class. The first one | had trouble with was stretching your comfort zone, and | noticed | was having trouble with it once we began our blogs. | had never ereated a blog, oe), —————?> ont ve «80 efor this class was hard to figure out how to use itand to force myself to become familiar with it since it would be such a big part of our grade. The next concept | struggled with was critical thinking. | realized after reading the chapters for our reader response leters that | had no idea how to look deeper into the readings. After we read the chaptersjn order to properly respond to itwe are prompted a series cof questions ike “What passages from the text resonate with you and why?" or "How can you relate to feyentve wording, TOKE, song the extort the autor?” The is ime reading these questions my fk reacton was something ike “Hy FeOLCTION*. “really! | don’t know. I had never had to think that deep into my readings before and it was clear need to stretch my critical thinking sis But throughout this semester we have done many reader response letters and now itis ikea piece of cake answering questions lke those. The last key concept that struggled with lke most people in the clas probably) was rhetorical knowledge. It was hard in the beginning getting a geod grasp of what rhetorical knowledge is, and learning to develop it. Some ofthe key rhetorical concepts are audience, purpose, context and genre which we have developed through en SO ceras 16 8H ted eerie. mom oeMalor antfacts Exploratory Essay: This was one ofthe fist major assignments atthe stat of the class and was when | realized how diferent this class was going tobe compared tony English lasses in the past. ‘When gen the assignment, we were told we could write about whatever we wanted; whatever Out rind wonders about, After just coming out of high schoo! where they ell you exactly what fo write tie owed relly 2as7 since, enjoyed what | was become. Wanders to. really enjoyed this assignment and my writing wting about. “Annotated bibiogrophy: This was another major assignment and also a smaller part of what would eventually lead to our multi-gente projec. After choosing atopic to research, was able to gather information and fects on my topic and put itinto the form of an annotated bibliography. The topic! chose to research was human emotions; more specifically, where human emotions come from and how they can be affected negatively by technology I gathered information from ten different sources that could be online or print texts, and once | had enough information gathered I could continue tothe next step of the prof tmu-geme projet: Fortis assignment est step wast pick an auince to target wth the Information had gathered. Once | knew who my target audience was, was able to begin picking what 2-3 genre pieces | wanted to use to dplay the information. The options ranged anywhere from a power point or feral the way toa poem or newspaper article For my malt-genreprojeckmy target audience was parents of young kids, who's emation evelopment could be patently harmed by technology. My fist genre plece was an informational power pont which | would show to parents to inform them on, the potential harm technology could pose on ther children's emotions. My second genre piece was a