Sean

=English 103 Final Portfolio=

Within my final portfolio I wanted to show the anyone who is reading this in how I have grown this semester as a writer. They say practice makes perfect, and I am a believer in that. My first essay I wrote was the personal memoir, and in all honesty it was very high school like and wasn't up the best college quality. Yet as you read, the more I came along within the class, the more my writing improved. All these papers are in chronological order and I believe show great strides in how my writing has improved throughout the semester.



This essay was the first essay we had to compose this semester. I had to write a personal memoir, and I wanted to keep the memoir somewhat comical, yet show true emotion and feelings. I wrote about the series of accidents I have been in with my different cars over the course of a year and a half. I focused in on one of the accidents and described all the emotions that went through me during the time of the incident.



Within this essay we had to write a letter to a particular person or an organization. We really had to describe our true feelings about topic that which we thought should have been changed. In this particular letter, I wrote to the math department at Ball State University. I explained in the letter how I thought the My Math Lab, the online program used for homework and quizzes, really took away the teaching of the professors. Within the essay I just explained my intake, and explained potential changes that could be made within the MATHS 111 course.



This essay was the third essay written this semester. The paper first consisted of a group project and brain storming and then transitioned over to an individual essay. We had to write about a controversial topic, and the topic we chose was about sex education in school. Within my paper I described each topic, abstinence and contraception. With each topic I wrote about a particular state law or organization who promotes that area of sex education. Then concluding my paper, I then gave my point of view on how I thought sex education should be taught in schools.



This piece was simply just a cover letter on Sex Education essay. Within the letter I described why I chose the topic, what research was needed and what was difficult about writing this topic. Overall it was just simply a summary about the topic and just explained the motives of my writing and what I wanted to get across to the readers.

This essay was the final written essay of the semester. My multi-genre essay was written about a particular summer where I had to travel all over the country to try and find a place to play for hockey. My essay consisted of poems, letter, newspaper ad, a prayer and dialogue. Between each variation, I would explain my thoughts and feelings to the readers. I felt this piece was the strongest essay. I found that I was most comfortable with what I wrote, and felt that the mixing up of genres made the process easier as well.

Overall I believe this semester brought great success in my writing. I feel that Dr. Hartman's class really prepared me next semester for English 104. I felt his varieties in essay's needed to be written for the class really expanded my writing abilities. I always felt that I was a strong writer, but after this semester I am a stronger writer. I was very consistent in my writing throughout the semester, and I plan on continuing to work hard and write to the best of my abilities next semester and into the future.