Bryon

For my portfolio, I am demonstration the progress I submitted throughout the fall semester as a writer. Even though I have been writing all my life, love to write, and is a Creative Writing major, English 103 helped me along the way of learning more material about writing and helped me embrace new knowledge about writing. With the many different writing assignments I developed along the semester, I managed to improve my writing with sources and using my resources in my essays. Throughout this English class, I've grown with the help of my teacher and peers with their help of feed-backs and helping my improve my papers and become a better writing and as an individual.



Even though this is not one of my English papers, I put my HSC 160 Reflection Paper in my portfolio because this classed helped me learn about myself physically and mentally. Another essay the genre for this assignment is a reflection paper, and we have not done a full reflection paper in this class. To reflected 4 Activities I done throughout this whole semester, I managed to use the extra material I learned from this class in my paper, which is partially why I put this assignment in my portfolio.

Never done blogs for a class before, I started off writing things down just for a grade, but as the semester came along and BSU events started picking up, I was highly influenced to write blogs down for my teacher read and know "what's going on in Bryon's life." I'm putting my blogs in my portfolio because it also helped me in my writing. Very interested in posting blogs about events that happened and coming up, and whatever is on my mind, I felt like I was important to everyone that was not accustomed to my lifestyle. I felt empowered. My blogs demonstrated interest and showed that I was determined to post blogs throughout the week by how enjoyed the message I posted, and how many paragraphs I posted as well. Blogs makes a different for English students, and I'm satisfied to have the opportunity to post blogs in Mr. Hartman's class!

This is the first writing assignment we did in English 103. I'm putting this in my portfolio because, it's the first writing assignment we did in English 103! I wrote about the incident of having a seizure in the Atrium in February. I like this writing we did because it helped me expand my writing material using descriptions to show the audience what's going on and for them to see, feel, the five senses, and understand what's going on from the time that the incident started to the end of recovery. I started writing dialogue as well, which is a new beginning of what Mr. Hartman applied in my new writing skills. I'm happy about this essay and shows the beginning of what my writing style was starting off this semester.

I like this assignment we had to write a broad letter out to someone, but in an "audience" view, like the Sammie Sousa letter. It was different and unusual, which is why I'm putting it into my portfolio. Writing about best friend issues most college students go through, but never talk about, made me write about this topic; and because it's an experience I underwent too many times, I knew I had a lot to say, which made it an easy assignment to do. This letter is another level of writing styles I appreciate Mr. Hartman gave us to write about.

I'm putting my genre in my portfolio because it is my favorite writing assignment I completed in this class. Writing about my grandma in different genre styles made me understand why I love writing. Finalizing my English 103 class with this writing assignment congratulated me a fun assignment to do outside of class. Unlike other English 103 class, Mr. Hartman made his class fun for all, and I can concur from experience. My genres are placed with poems, letters, journal entries, notes, etc. that I established understanding from learning from Mr. Hartman's class. This piece symbolizes the ending of my progress throughout English 103 and demonstrates the growth I've developed throughout the learning of English 103.

Throughout my portfolio, I've given an essay on what I started the fall semester off with. Throughout the portfolio, including the HSC 160 essay, I've given some growth of how English 103 helped me in becoming a better writer. Using dialogue, resources, new-more descriptions, etc. in my papers, that's seen throughout my portfolio, results from the evidence of my portfolio. I feel stronger and wiser about my writing skills now that I have successfully passed this class and made improvements in my grade, based off of my essays. I enjoyed writing even more than what I started off the semester enthused about. Mr. Hartman and the formality of how he controls his class, and the knowledge he has for his students on making them, including myself, better writers shows in his students; and I can concur that statement as a witness throughout my essays and knowledge I learned from him. I am excited to have been in his class and learned from him, for he excelled me beyond my English college experience than my last year's English 103 teacher; and my portfolio is a proven-statement of my resource of Mr. Hartman's English 103 class.