Lauren+Reflective+Portfolio

=Lauren Hofferbert= =Reflective Portfolio=

Cover Letter:
Lauren's Cover Letter

**Memoir: **
** Lauren Memoir **

====-The memoir was probably my favorite piece of writing that we did in English 103. I had a lot of fun taking one single event then stretching it out to make it into a college paper piece of writing. I think that this was on of my better pieces of writing and I wanted to include it in the portfolio because I thought I did so well on it. In stead of writing about what the teacher wanted us to write about, we as students were able to pick what event in our lives we wanted to write about and then reflect on it, and make it into a memoir. This was very exciting for me because I had never done anything like this before that would actually turn out to be an assignment that I would turn in and receive a good grade on.====

Lauren Letter
====-The public letter I had a really difficult time deciding what I wanted to talk about. It was harder for me to choose the topic of bullying because I was a bully once too. In a way I feel like we all were or still are and especially all of us are capable of being a bully to someone in our lives at one point. Whether it is at school, on the playground, classroom, in a sport, on the street, or even in the work place we all have experienced bullying. So I wanted to choose something that everyone could relate too. This was a step for me in my writing because I wanted to address everyone who was reading, and I thought hard about my readers. I even wrote about the fact that I too was a bully, and though it was hard to tell publicly that I was a bully, I thought it would help my case, and my credibility. Over all in my opinion I thought I did a very good job in this writing and it showed that I could offer different points of view on the topic I had chosen.====

Lauren Outline
====-I wanted to include a piece of writing from another college course to show that I was learning about writing even in other classes. So for this I chose a speech outline from my communication 210 class. For this class we had to write speeches and read them to the class. However before we gave the speech, we had to write an outline. In this outline we had to include full sentences and also references that had to be cited by in text citation. So for this course we had to have all of our citations in APA format instead of the usual MLA that I have used for all writing in the past and in this class. This was a change for me but it also had taught me how to branch out and use different forms of writing and different forms of citations that all applied to what I will use in the future. This was a good change for me and it taught me a lot about how I could use what I am learning in my English class and then apply it to my other courses too.====

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**Multi Genre:** =====

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====-The multi genre did not feel like an English assignment to me. I really enjoyed working on it because it was a change of pace from what I had been doing my whole life with writing papers. I wanted to include this in my portfolio to show that even though a paper is not in the word document format with times new roman 12 pt. font and double spaced, it still is considered a piece or writing. This assignment was a good change for us to be able to do this on a website and even though it looked a lot harder at first, after going over how to work the website it became easy and fun to work on. In the end this multi genre assignment shows us students how to branch out with our writing and still be able to have fun and to practice different types of writing and apply them all to one topic. It taught me organization skills for papers and most of all to feel confident in my writings and the different ways and genres that I could write in.====