Final Portfolio

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Revision of website
Revision has to be my favorite, why? Because everything that I look over for a second time is always terrible. Especially this website, I felt as if I had a great idea for my website but while revising the website my context is message was screwed up it left my audience confused. I’ve learned so much in revision, ways of finding solutions and fixing them. I first started with the intro of my website, didn’t have an attention catcher, the paragraphs weren’t visible because they were bunched together and confused my reading. I trashed the whole first and second page while just simplifying the fourth and fixing mistake. I first created a nice attention catcher to draw my audience in with some type of interest, spaced out my paragraphs and provided content so my audience would know what my argument is. My second page had a bit of confusing too, so I had to rewrite that but keep the same message. Instead of having huge paragraphs of content I provided clear bullet of my argument. I address topics where I thought both styles could benefit from each other and acknowledge their weaknesses of how this could be done. Of course I don’t have enough time being a student to do actual research on this topic but I provide a great theory of mine. That’s about it I fixed a lot of grammar and spelling as well and had fun revising this assignment.

Unit One
First off, I would like to thank you for a great year of learning that was really beneficial, this English 102 course was the main source for all my other classes. When we first began unit one the course seemed like an ordinary English class, we start with the required readings, MLA formatting and the annotated bibliographies. I did such similar work in English 101 and it helped me out a lot. I never knew what the purpose of an annotated bibliography was and honesty never thought it would come into play. The actual length of an annotated bibliography is what I enjoy mostly, short and simple. Well I’m glad I paid attention because this semester was my most challenging and a lot of the criteria related right back to this course. For example, I had a 25 page paper due in my communication research class and the first 12 pages were annotated bibliographies about 25 scholarly journals I read. I smiled when my teacher assigned this paper, I felt as if I were ahead of the curve. I’ve always had problems with length requirements and prior to this class I seriously would’ve freaked out before but there are so many different methods that I’ve acquired in your class I rarely have those problems anymore. The most frequent tip I been using is write down all my ideas and do a free-write for each one. I love using it, I’m actually using it for this assignment. While typing and putting this communication paper together the formatting was exceptionally important, I had a book that shows more about MLA formatting but I felt comfortable using my own knowledge.
Many of my other class seemed more structured around English then communication, most of everything we did I felt comfortable with. I remember when we had the conversation in English last year how your writing is different in every class. Content is always the most important but you get docked down major points for wrong formatting. I guess it’s really what you said last semester, everything relates to English in a way. A lot of my communication classes I have require a substantial amount of reading and research similar to reading, research for the website and journals in your English, summarize, analyze, and reflect on your source. Knowing most of this information and still having my old assignments helped me pull my own weight and some of my group member’s weight. Everything I’ve learned in the course has made me smarter, and most of it played roles in a lot of my other courses.
Unit Two
The class took a huge leap with electronic composition, “Blogger” and the website. The blog’s were one of my funniest out of many to me because it was freedom of speech. Like a journal, it was your own opinion, no structure, just compiled thoughts. At least for me, I believe why the blog was one of my favorites because I felt as if it taught me how to address certain factors, especially if I didn’t understand something the blog was the only time where I could ask a question of uncertainty and give my own thoughts. Unit two seem like it would never end with the heavy workload, my mind set with unit two was half real world and half English. Assignment due was like being in the workforce, that’s mainly how I look at everything. Don’t complain just get it done, the only problem was getting the assignments to the blog in time without providing bullshit content in my work. There’s no English method or tip for the amount of workload we received I just embraced it, many times I began to become lost but in the middle of the semester the check in we had set me straight. There are always requirements in life and that’s how I looked at unit two, just like football to me showing up and doing your job no matter what’s expected of you.
All the work we did I understood was supposed to be put in the website just to have enough credibility. When I looked over unit two and saw the website assignment I was sort of frighten because last year’s website were terrible. One thing that was so eye opening to me was when I began my website and looked back on all the research I did, I felt comfortable with an enough credible sources to start my website with enough ideas. Totally different from last semesters website and I still can’t figure out what I did different that made this one some much better and make me feel like I accomplished something. Three valuable things I learn while doing this website: adequate research, writing with credibility and targeting a particular audience. Honestly I hate school with a passion but it’s really invigorating when you learn new things, makes me want to continue to learn. Before I learned how to do a substantial amount of research in any class I learned here first, finding similar references that tie into my research, etc. I began my website like a retard just babbling about this and that without any results, credibility, and evidence. I still feel the same way I did while I was doing my website now I’ve acquired new methods to help me state claims. That’s when I found a ton of sources that I agreed slightly with what I was trying to get across.
Of course with great research a lot of the journals changed what I wanted to prove and helped me make better arguments. I also learned to take out I, we, use, our and speaking in third person, sounds way more credible without. The basis of my audience all depended on the facts I stated, the things I said, what I decided to include and how I persuaded my audience. The audience in my website was mainly parents so I provided information of what I thought parents would want to hear, questions that needed to be answered and major concerns. I had the most fun doing the website out of all assignments; I always talk about having a business and broadcasting my own business one day, the website is just another way to network yourself. Ha-ha now I won’t have to hire someone in the future, I can do it myself. It’s just a class assignment now but I’ll love to have a real website in the near future to network myself and etc.
Unit Three
Unit three was a relief with smaller work requirement but still took up a significant amount of time conducting the video presentation. All the work we complete with the website and blog was for this video to be perfection. It never really seemed like the project was about a video, it was what you captured and the purpose of each shot. Almost like in a journal where you state an idea of some sort and support reasons why. The video was no different from writing on the blog or typing a paper it just helped bring other aspects of English in play. Us learning about rhetoric in English 101 was no difference from learning digital rhetoric in English 102, actually was easier and more convenient. I learned a lot in decision making and why certain choose you go with have a purpose. Instead of writing out what you want it’s visual and an articulate form of English. In Conclusion the three units were brilliant, it just create different ways of English composition. Found alternative ways to bring out the best in me and I will forever remember these tactics.