Minkyung's+portfolio

=Minkyung Jung= =ENG 103= =Fall 2010= =Matthew Hartman=

= Cover Letter =

When I was young, until I went to the elementary school, I really liked writing. I liked writing poem, novel and good at writing diary. When I was writing, I could rearrange thinking and dream in my mind. But as I grew up, there were a lot more interesting things than writing. And as I had to write a poem, novel or essay for the class as homework, writing became burden to me. As I passed teenager and adolescent time, I hated writing. And after became a college student, all the things I wrote was just boring report or assignment. So, until I came to BSU, and took an ENG 103 class I didn’t have many chances to write real writing.

When I first decided to take an ENG 103 class, it was not because I had a great interest in writing. It was because ENG 103 class was core class for my Korean university. When I went to the first class, I was so worried about the class. Because it was just about a week after I came to America and I didn’t know anything about curriculum in America class. And I couldn’t understand what professor and students are talking about. ENG 103 was one of the hardest classes for me. However, now I think it was worth. The first writing project in ENG 103 class was memoir. At that time, I even didn’t know what memoir is. Even choosing topic was so hard for me. I couldn’t decide what topic would be good for my memoir. At that time, professor made us make a group and give an advice to partner. My partner was Erika and she said the topic ‘The First and the Last Robbery’ would be good. She said it would be a good topic because it covers an experience which can explain my emotion at that time well. I agreed with that and I wrote about that. She was right. Before I decided topic, I was at a loss about what to do for first writing project. But after I decided topic, I could write quite easily. And it was quite fun either. Because it was my experience I thought about what I did and what I felt at that time. Thinking about past was quite fun. And fortunately, I got a good grade for my first writing project. It made me confident in writing class. And writing class became more and more interesting. And I found myself who liked writing when I was young. I liked writing and writing class more and more. Second project was a public letter. I really liked that project. I wrote about problem of Korean education. And it made me think about Korean education once again. For me, who is dreaming about becoming a English teacher in Korea, it was great chance to think about my job attitude. I liked all projects that I did in ENG 103 class. However, the most impressive and important project to me is a third project, research paper. Actually, I’ve never written research paper before. Even though, when I went to the college in Korea, we had similar thing but it was totally different with American research paper. I had no idea what to do. So, as its name told me. I researched about my topic and just wrote about it. Actually I copied and pasted it in my paper. I thought it was research paper, because its name is research paper. But I was totally wrong. I was such a stupid and didn’t know anything. I got a bad grade and had a meeting with professor twice. Fortunately, I had another chance to fix the research paper. Thanks to that, I could learn a lot about research paper. Although, I don’t know well about research paper and exact APA format yet, but I think I grew a lot thanks to research paper. I learned about plagiarism, citing, and quote. And I learned how important to use other people’s information. Research paper was the most stress to me during this semester, but I think it was worth. If I didn’t have another chance to do it again, I won’t know about it forever and made same mistake again and again. The most interesting project was multi-genre essay. For me it was totally new. I have never written that kind of thing and never thought about those many different genres. Thinking about many different genres and put my topic in it was quite a creative job. However, for the multi-genre essay, I didn’t like the sharing time in the class. The topic of my multi-genre essay was my father, it was quite private experience to me. So it was uncomfortable to share it with classmates and other people who don’t know well about me. But when I finished my writing, I thought it can be a good impression to some children who like me. Multi-genre essay was the best assignment that I’ve ever done. It was the first time that doing assignment was not hard but fun. I did the last project with feeling of making scrap book of my memory. Because it was my first experience in America, I need many help from other people. Especially, when I do a writing project, I needed to go to the writing center a lot to get a help for grammar and sentence structure. The best tutor I’ve ever met was Phil. He helped me as if doing his homework. He taught me many fluent English expressions. And I also learned that it is bad to start sentence with ‘but’, and learned to use ‘however’ instead of ‘but’. And I feel really appreciate to professor who gave me another chance to write research paper again and taught me how to write right research paper. Express one’s mind and think in writing is a deliberate job. And I think it is the most effective way to express my opinion and mind to others. And also it is a great way to know my mind. During the writing class I learned a lot about how to write right writing, and also learned about how to know my mind. All of writing project in ENG 103 class gave me a big chance to think about my life. Even after this class, even though I don’t have any chance to write something for class, I feel like one of my hobbies will be writing.  ﻿ Portflio  1. Memoir ‘The First and the Last Robbery’ Memoir was the first writing project for me after coming to America. Because of that, it was quite a burden for me. However, thanks to chosen great topic I could write about my experience easily and having fun. I chose a topic as a ‘The First and the Last Robbery’, this memoir is about stealing a doll when I was a 7 years old. Explaining my experience and making my readers sympathize with me was the hardest part. However, this project gave me big chance to think about my past. And I learned how to explain people’s emotion.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">2. Public Letter ‘Dear Minister of Korean Education’ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">Public Letter was one of the interesting projects in this semester. Because my major is English Education I have great interest in Korean Education. And I always worry about Korean education. Thanks to writing public letter I had a chance to think about Korean education once again. In this letter, I wrote the public letter to minister of Korean education. In this letter I wrote about the problem of Korean education and it gave me big chance to think about the way how we can fix those problems. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">

<span style="background: white; display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 38pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0gd; text-align: left; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; text-indent: -18pt; word-break: keep-all;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">3. Critical Response Paper ‘ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">After Reading ‘ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Promoting School Success for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning Students: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention and Intervention Strategies’ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">For this semester I took EDMUL 205 class. This class is Introduction to Multicultural Education. In this class we write critical response paper, after reading some articles about multicultural education. Because I want to be a teacher, thinking about multicultural education and write my thinking about that was great way to prepare for being a teacher. This critical response paper ‘ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">After Reading ‘ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Promoting School Success for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning Students: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention and Intervention Strategies’’ is the last paper in that class. This paper is about my thinking through homosexual people. And I mentioned some way that to care homosexual children. It also includes my experience about gay friend. While writing this paper I could have time to think about different sexual orientation and how to deal with those kinds of people. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">4. Failed Research Paper ‘College Degree and Economy’

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">During the semester, research paper was the hardest project for me. My topic was ‘College Degree and Economy’. Because I’ve never written research paper before, I didn’t know anything about it. This is the first research paper which I got an F for the class. I was so shocked and I couldn’t admit the result, because I did my best. But after learning about research paper more. I found that I did wrong. And I could have chance to re-write it. It was a big chance to learn about research paper. <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 38pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-para-margin-left: 0gd; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">5. Re-written Research Paper ‘College Degree and Economy’ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">With the same topic ‘College Degree and Economy’, I revised and fixed my failed research paper. In this paper, I tried to follow right APA format and citation. The hardest part was a paraphrasing. Making other person’s word as my word was quite confusing. Contrary to the failed paper, in this paper my thesis is clearer. Thanks to research paper, I found how I can maintain my opinion with using other material and article. And it was great opportunity to learn APA format. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> 6. Multi-genre Essay ‘CSI Investigation Report: Finding Father’s Life’ Link

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">It was the most interesting assignment I’ve ever done. I had to make more than 5 different genres. It was totally new and confusing at first. But thinking about new genres and put them together in one topic was really creative and interesting work. I chose a topic as my father so it gave me a big chance to think about my parent’s love again. And to make my reader agree with me I had to be honest. Through this project I learned how to deliver my mind with writing.