For my portfolio, I started at the very beginning. My first essay I included was the first one we wrote, the personal memoir. I felt this paper was the weakest off all of the pieces I have on here. Yet that is to be expected since it was the first piece. What I wanted to show the readers of the portfolio was to start latest and then progressively move into most recently written essays. I felt this way would show the readers strength and progress as I moved further along in my writing throughout the semester.
My writing process within the portfolio was to explain what I did with each piece and why I chose that particular topic to write on. I want to give some background behind each piece, so readers can get a summary of what the piece is about before they actually read it. I felt this could ease the reader in so they don't go completely blind before they read the particular essay.
The process I used was to show the readers the progress I made as a writer. Although my grades were consistently "B's", I felt each paper was my strongest. Even though I got a B- on the controversial topic essay, I felt that it was the strongest piece. It was the third essay we wrote, and I felt that the use of sourcing, research and placing that research in an organizing manner, really taught me how to write a good informative essay. Overall what I learned from this semester was that writing takes time and that its like anything you do in life, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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