Katelin+McClure

//KATELIN MCCLURE// is the author of three very unique books, all of which are world wide sellers. She started out as a young girl, living in a small California town. Katelin was inspired by the young writers she would read about on the internet. Many things caught her eye, but at the age of eighteen she discovered her one talent of all, writing! She then began writing blogs on an internet website called //The View//. Day by day she grew as a writer. Her work became so popular that it was soon published into the three books that she is known for today, //Sunshine//, //Glory Days//, and //Love Doesn't Come Easy//.
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Katelin was born, and raised on a farm. She raises pigs, and often reads to them.

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Cover Letter: [[file:English 103 Final Portfolio Cover Letter.docx]]

 * First Draft Memoir: Rolling with Friends [[file:English 103 Rolling with Friends.docx]]**

Memoir writing was something that was newly introduced to me just this year. It was one of the more difficult things for me to write because I had already lived the moment, and it was hard for me to express the others how I was feeling through my writing. I wrote about an accident I was involved in, late last summer. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. My first draft was a bit different from the final paper I had turned in I had a hard time telling the story. There was so much I wanted to include, but didn’t know how to put it into text. It wasn’t until the second draft that I was able to actual understand what I was writing. Looking back at the drafts now, I was unsure of how to write an actual memoir until I finished a first draft, and by the second I had more of a grip on the paper. I was able to mark out what I did wrong on the first one, and revise it so there was more feeling and emotion within it.


 * A Public Letter: Drunk Driving [[file:English 103 KMcClure Persuasive Letter.docx]]**

When we were told we needed to research something that we would like to address a certain person/group about, I immediately knew what I wanted to write about. My eldest cousin was involved in a drunk driving accident. He was a passenger in a car in which his friend, the driver, was killed. It all could have been prevented if alcohol wasn’t involved. So, the argument I wanted to address was that you should never drink and drive. It seems like common sense, but statistics show that it happens, and many die each year from drunk driving. The hardest part about this project was the research. I had never had to cite everything I read about on the Internet. So, learning the process of how to cite a source correctly was the biggest challenge. I also had to write in a persuasive way. I had to think out a way to catch the reader, and keep them wanting to read more. That is why I included the story about my cousin. I didn’t want to make it like every other drunk driving paper. I wanted it to be different, so readers would actually enjoy it.


 * Unfamiliar Genre Paper: Journal Over the Process of Writing the Obituary** [[file:English 103 Journal for Unfamiliar Genre.docx]]

Free writing is something easy, and non-stressful. There are no requirements, and no guidelines. It is just I, and the paper. For our genre paper I chose to write an obituary. Most people would question why I would want to write about a dead person. Writing about a dead person was actually interesting because I was able to make-up a story about a man who is living legend. His name is Bill Gates, and his story of life is one of the most interesting stories I’ve ever studied. For this project we had to keep a journal of everything we did. I put so much work into this project that my journal was actually the most interesting of it all. My process of writing was long, and very well thought out. I kept up on my journal! I didn’t think I would actually be able to, but I did! That is what made it all the more worthwhile reading in the end. I could reflect back on how far I had come, and really appreciate all the work I put into writing my obituary over Bill Gates.


 * Unfamiliar Genre Project: Annotated Bibliography [[file:English 103 Annotated Bibliography.docx]]**

The most challenging piece of writing I had ever completed was an annotated bibliography over different obituaries. Finding the obituaries, and annotating them was the easy part. The more difficult part was learning how to cite. I chose to cite the sources in MLA format. Believe it or not, this was my first time actually working with MLA format. You would think that with all of the websites available these days I would have been able to figure out how to do it rather easily. For some reason citing sources didn’t come easy for me. By the time I was on my fourth or fifth source I was finally getting the hang of it. I’m so glad we had to do this though because I am now very familiar with the different ways you can cite a source, and also the different websites available that can assist me in citing sources. I learned the most from this piece. I think that is what is most important!