Amanda

Amanda Tharp English 103 12/6/10
 * __Final Portfolio Overview of the Semester__**

__**Zero Draft for Memoir paper**__[[file:Zero draft.docx]]
The reason I decided to put one of my many zero drafts on my portfolio is because I felt that doing the zero drafts this semester were really helpful and for me helped my writing. I'm use to only doing some brain storming, a rough draft, and then going right into the final draft. I was never introdcued to the zero draft until english 103. Basically its a draft before your draft. It helped me recollect ideas and memories that i had forgotten about and it was nice because it was basically just free writing your rough draft and not really having to correct your grammar mistakes. You could just write what was on your mind about the topic you were writing about and go from there. They were extremely helpful to me, especially the one I wrote for my Memoir because it hepled me to put together ideas and bring back the memories for the topic I choose. Mainly I viewed the zero drafts as another step I could take before my rough draft, where I had more time to really think crucially about my topic so I could make it my best with as much detail as possible. __**Memoir Paper**__- AFC Championship game, Colts vs. Pats The memoir paper was definately one of my favorite papers because I got to reminisce on a past experience we got to choose ourselves. Of course being the big Colts fan that I am I choose to write about the AFC Championship game between the Colts and Pats. I absolutlely loved writing this paper because I had so much detail and memories of this game in my head that I wanted to get out! This paper was one of the more easier papers for me because I remember that game as if it were yesterday. It was also interesting to write this paper because I had never wrote a memoir before on anything so it was something different that I'm glad I got to do for an English paper. The public letter was a letter that we wrote to anyone of our choice that was either informing them about something or either in my place complaining about something. I really liked this paper because I choose to write to my dorm floor, B3. The letter included a number of complaints that I had about how the dorms were being treated and how unsanitary I felt they were. I get to let out my feelings and frustrations with how dirty the bathrooms are and I stressed the fact that us being girls we don't need to be precieved as boys. The paper wasn't all about complaining though, I also tryed to come up with some ideas that our floor could do to help this problem and keep our floor clean. The public letter was another interesting paper I liked writing because we basically got to choose the topic and present ideas in our paper about how the problems we had could be fixed. The arguement essay was an essay where we got into groups and decided on a topic to present in our papers that we wrote individually. Once we choose our topic we all decided on a side to be on for the topic. Whether we were for or against it we had to come up with different reasons for why we felt that way, along with supporting facts to support our arguement. For my paper my group choose to write about animal lab testing. When I began the paper I had to do ALOT of research on the topic because I knew the basics about animal testing but for a research paper just the basics aren't going to help you. Once I researched my topic some more I was able to develop different arguments on my topic that helped me write the rest of my paper. One thing I would've done differently in this paper was maybe choose a topic where both sides couldn't go both ways. In my paper I choose to be against it but it was often hard to persuade people and find good arguements to believe my side because theres some good things to the side of being for animal testing. So that was difficult and I feel like if I choose a different topic that didnt reflect me kind of being on both sides I would've gotten a better grade and I will definately remember that for my next argument paper. The Multi-Genre essay was by far my favorite essay that we did in english 103. It was an essay where we got to write on a subject of our choice and come up with different genres, such as a collage, poems, description, and dialogue, divided up in sections on your subject. The topic I choose was one I knew I could write a lot about because it's a subject that I have a lot of emotions and feelings about. The subject I choose was about a family friend that I lost in a drunk driving accident. My essay was very personal and it meant a lot to me and I feel like that reflects a lot in my paper. It was a hard paper to write because the timing we had to write it was right around the anniversery of Travis's death. But even though it was hard to write, I am glad it did happen because it encouraged me to write it even more and be able to come up with even more genres to write about that were on my mind. Again, I really liked this paper because it gave me a chance to really let out a lot of feelings that I usually don't talk about with others and I was able to put it into my own work and make it my own.
 * __Public Letter__- Letter to B3** [[file:letter to b3.docx]]
 * __Argument Essay__- Animal Lab Testing** [[file:Animal Lab Testing paper.docx]]
 * __Multi-Genre Essay__- Travis Scott Woerner** [[file:Multi Genre Final Draft.docx]]