Carlye's+Portfolio

=Carlye's Portfolio=



This is my final cover letter and overview of English 103.
[] ===I chose to put this blog link in my portfolio because I feel this better informs people of who i really am as a writer. This is a non formal writing that lets my audience see that not all of my writing is structured and that not all of my writing has to make sense to everyone else. To me, this is the best way to learn about someone. I feel that the most enjoyable things to read are the pieces of writing that you do not think most people will read. This blog really shows how i link my everyday experiences into my writing. The simplest things that I notice usually tend to give me the best ideas to write about. When i write blogs, i tend to just be free minded and not care about what anyone will say about my writing. This tends to make my writing stronger, and give audiences better visual as to what i am wanting them to understand. This was fun for me to write all year and I felt it needed to be in this portfolio to start off with a relaxing manner.===

===This memoir is my most important piece of writing that i completed all year. This paper was so easy for me to write and it was a very strong paper. The emotions were so close to my heart the paper basically wrote itself. With this paper, I felt as if I were lost in the actual setting and I was living this moment all over again. Other then those reasons i feel like this paper was the most beneficial for me to write. It really taught me how to write with a lot of description and emotion. This made me a better write all around. Now when I write, I always make sure to include a lot of details and make sure that readers will get the exact picture that i am painting for them. I had never written a memoir until now, and I could defiantly see myself writing more of them in the future. These were also fun to read to see what kind of details and examples that other people came up with while writing these papers.===

===I included this paper because I had never written one of these before. I had a lot of fun with this, and I enjoyed studying different papers as well as how to write them. Most of the time, reading a paper is really boring and when approached in a multi-genre style it makes reading a lot more fun. This paper also showed the personality of my writing. I wanted this paper to be included because it shows how to connect different pieces of writing together in a way that tells a story or progression over a certain frame of time. I also wanted this paper to be included because this was challenging to write. There were so many different directions that this paper could go and it was up to me as the writer to arrange this paper how i thought would be most sufficient for my audience. This paper was formally written but yet it was relaxed enough to be able to include humor and personal stories throughout.===

===I wanted this in my portfolio because i wanted to show off who I really am. When i write, i always write with confidence and there is no better example than this paper. This paper also shows how to grab someone's attention through a certain style of writing. This paper needed to be included for more then just the style. With people reading this, they can learn a lot about me as a writer. Open letters are most important to me because no matter what your opinion is or the attitude that you set for your paper, its never wrong. My paper was a true identification of who i am, and this was very important for me to include. I wanted people to get to know about me, but I also know that there were some people that did not care to read my letter. This is the beauty of an open letter.===



===I included this paper because I wanted to display my development as a writer. I felt like this paper was the best demonstration of defending two sides of an argument in a paper that was based off of strictly research. This paper showed that as a writer i could make conclusions based off of a lot of different sources. This was the first research paper I had written at college level. I learned a lot about how paper should be structured, accountable sources, correct citations, and overall presentation of a paper. This was the most formal example of writing that I did and i wanted to be sure and include it because most of my other writing was not this in depth and time consuming. This paper took the most thought and was the toughest to figure out what order I wanted to place fractions of my paper together to make it the most formal.===

===This is free write that I did out of class. This is one of the most important things that i have sent back home since i have been here. I wanted to send a little insight back home to let everyone know that i was okay and to thank them for all of the things that they have given me. I needed to include this piece for more then just my own importance. Most other teenagers would not have the courage to write and share something like this out in the open. I have the courage to put something like this out for the public to read, and I know at this point most teens would not feel comfortable with this. Also, I wanted to show off the vibrant relationship with my parents and i wanted them to know exactly how i was feeling. This by far has the most meaning out of anything i have written since I have been here. This writing was also the most free that I completed. I got frustrated with my life one day and I just sat down and let every thing out. This was the most relaxed writing that I did, and it was important to display something such as this in my portfolio.===