NrypelPortfolio

=Eng 103 Writing Portfolio=

=Cover Letter =

Religions of the East paper from IU
Apparently when I went home and saved this paper to my flash drive it didn't actually save so I don't actually have this file with me. Which I guess is a good thing for me since no one can read it. Hopefully it doesn't hurt my grade too much. This is the paper that I talked about in my cover letter. It is a very poorly made paper that I spent all day writing the day before it was due. This would be what I consider the low point in my writing 'career'. I almost preferred not to write it than to writing a terrible paper. The problem as referenced in my cover letter is that I had no idea what to write about. The requirements were about as broad as can be and I can't work under that. I need some idea of where to start. I'm sure even now I couldn't come up with a topic based off those requirements.

Memoir [[file:NrypelMemoir Final Draft.docx]]
This was one of my more disappointing papers in the class. Not so much that it was poorly written just that I know I could have done better with my other topic I considered using. I used the moment that I realized I liked history for the paper. The problem with this was that the 'moment' wasn't really that great. It was difficult to explain and wasn't that interesting. It just wasn't great for a memoir even though it was a remembrance of some sort. My other topic choice was about the time my dog fell through the ice in the pond in my backyard and I had to go get her. I'm sure it already sounds like it'd be a way better memoir but there were two things that stopped me from using it. One was the fear that I didn't have enough to meet the length requirements. The second problem was that I don't particularly like talking about that moment so the thought of writing a paper about it wasn't very enticing. What I ended up with was an okay paper.

Open Letter [[file:NrypelOpen Letter Final Draft.docx]]
This was the paper in the class I was most satisfied with for various reasons even though it's going to be the one that I received my worst grade on. I was plagued with the same thing I had always had a problem with for my rough draft. The point was unclear and my topic was still not the best choice. This time though after meeting with the teacher I completely scratched my rough draft for the first time ever. I didn't necessarily change topic but I did provide a clearer point to the reader. I completely rewrote the paper and was actually fairly satisfied with it. This paper helped me in my future papers as far as how to go about things.

Research Paper [[file:NrypelResearch Paper Final Draft.docx]]
This was both my best paper I wrote and the most eye opening one. As I have stressed the whole portfolio: topic, topic, topic. I had the perfect topic for this paper and it wasn't even the one I wanted. We had to come up with a topic as a group and my partners wanted to do it about replay in baseball. That turned out quite well for me. It was a pretty easy paper to write. Way easier than anything else I wrote because I knew what I was saying the whole time. My grade was only marked down on things I could have caught with proofreading. Either way I gained a valuable lesson in topic choice, one that will help me in my final paper.

Multi-genre Essay [[file:NrypelMulti-genrefinal.docx]]
This was a weird paper for me as I'm sure it was for a lot of people. I still don't understand its viability for telling a story and don't think the format itself actually helped me in anyway. I felt good about what I wrote though. When it was first announced I didn't have a clue what I was going to write about. I went through a couple choices for my topic and the old me probably would have stuck with one. None of them were that great for this type of paper. After awhile of brainstorming I arrived to my final topic on religion. It worked out perfectly, something I know wouldn't have happened with my other topics. I still think I could have done better on it as a whole, but with it being the last paper and all, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't happy that I was finally done for the semester.