Olivia+Holt

Olivia Holt was born and raised in a small town in West Tennessee by the name of Union City. She moved to Fishers, Indiana right before high school. She attended Ball State for Deaf Education. She has been awarded two Newbery Medals for children sign language books. She currently resides in Muncie, Indiana with her cat.

Olivia Holt has always had a fascination with traveling the world. Last time she was seen was in Muncie with her cat and a hot air balloon.

http://omholt.iweb.bsu.edu/classpage/

http://omholt.iweb.bsu.edu/multigenre/index.html


 * Final Portfolio-FINISHED**

@https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a1pJirkDJXZ48yuVZV52rw0ToMY__23ATcFdOOAHYSk/edit?hl=en_US
 * Cover Letter-**

@https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wja0ZCyKkuIf1L-w31thRS9u0yZnatBR29OpOQjSQxU/edit?hl=en_US
 * Memoir-**

Memoir writing was very enjoyable to me. I had never really sat down in the past and wrote about my personal experiences vividly in an essay format. Speaking of memories or even writing about them in a personal journal is very different from that of writing about them in an essay format. For this assignment, I wrote about spending the different seasons with my grandparents in Tennessee. I always seem to have an issue of trying to pinpoint my exact writing. At first, I had thrown in every holiday experience with them. It wasn't until after the one on one meeting that I decided to pick only four memories, each to represent one in a season. The first draft was a complete mess! Once my thoughts were cleared and organized it was much easier to write and connect these memories for my paper. Weeding out the memories helped make for better detail, sometimes less is more.

@https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vq1jNxspx64pcCq6kduwrq5WniUkpmm_Geb47Ur0_i0/edit?hl=en_US
 * Unfamiliar Genre:Journal**

The nice thing about journal entries is just letting the mind flow and write. It is definitely nice not to have guidelines for these including a bare minimum on word count. For the unfamiliar genre assignment, I chose to write an album review. I did it over the fairly recent release of Red Hot Chili Pepper's //I'm With You.// This assignment was one of the bigger assignments for me. I think I felt this way because I had never written anything like it in the past, so plenty of work went into the assignment. At first, I thought the journals were going to be a pain keeping up with them, but it really helped me see my progress of the assignment. It also helped me to relieve stress within the writing process.

@https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WkwgqjZlCW8asuZOpX5qhkicXtxPcjRdLY7ipgaJk14/edit?hl=en_US
 * Unfamiliar Genre: Annotated Bib-**

Doing an annotated bibliography was the first time for me. It was challenging because there are so many pieces to writing one assignment. You have to find sources, cite them even if you didn't use them in your research, and also explain how they did or did not help in your research.This was a very time consuming paper, but looking back it helped organize my sources and cites better in my album review. I was able to see how to improve my album review by comparing it with other examples. This definitely helped me figure out how to properly cite sources and figure out which ones helped the most in my research.

@https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QjRwMf2diMQWRfeMC7USa3vzppYw3d9NOZTcI7Etni4/edit?hl=en_US
 * Unfamiliar Genre: Reflective Letter-**

Writing a reflective letter has been a problem for me all semester. Once again I have never had to do so in the past. And to sit down after an assignment is done and reflect on how well or bad it went is a challenge for me. I tend to forget the processes that did not work for me once I have my pattern down. Writing reflective letters for the papers over the semester really helped pinpoint my thought process of how i write my papers. It helps me see where I can improve for writing in the future.