Kyle's+Refective+Portfolio



This was my very first paper that I was assigned to do in college. We were told in class to write about some memorable moment that has happened in our lives. I chose to write about playing football in high school because it's not just one memorable moment in my life, but several. I could sit and talk to someone all day about my high school football career, thats how many memories that I have. My memoir, titled "Friday Nights Under the Lights" is a memoir about some of the most important moments in the past four years of my life and how I will never forget them.

The Letter that we were assigned to write was a very unique assignment. I had never been assigned to write a paper of this sort before. This assignment wasn't my favorite but it was pretty fun to do because I was able to talk about whatever I wanted to. I wrote my letter to the Ball State University Dining Services and I wrote about how I had a few concerns with how the dining system works. I voiced my opinion about what I do and do not like about the dining system here and how I feel the dining could be made better.

For the research paper we had to choose groups of about four people and choose a topic that can be argued about. I formed a group with Alex, Paul, and Jordan and we came up with a pretty good topic to write about. We decided to write about whether violence in video games has a bad affect on youthful players or if it has no effect at all. I decided to write my argument about how violence in video games does not have a bad effect on players as long as they are mature enough to understand and how it can relieve stress.

, The Multi-Genre paper was another very interesting paper to write because I had never written anything like it before. We were assigned to choose from many different genres and pick at least five to write about. I wrote about what it means to be a St. Joseph's High School football player and the genres that I chose to have in my paper were a song (The Boys of Fall by Kenny Chesney), a text message from myself to a current St. Joe football player, a timeline of events during a game, an inspirational quote that the team says before every game, and a flyer that included logos and pictures. I liked this writing assignment because it was not that hard to do and it was very fun to write, it brought back many good memories from my past years.

Kyle's Blog I have never had a blog before so the fact that we were assigned to write one blog post each week was a pretty cool. I was able to write about whatever I wanted each week except when I was working on my research paper (I had to write about the process of writing my research paper). The blog was a nice way to share with Dr. Hartman and my fellow classmates my life and interests. Some of the topics that i chose to write my weekly blog posts about were the new Call of Duty: Black Ops video game, the St. Joe vs. Marian high school football rivalry, what "Home" means to me, and Ball State homecoming weekend. The blog was a very good way to practice my writing every week too and it was nice because as long as I wrote about something I would get a grade for it.