About Me
My name is Gunnar Garcia. I am a second year accounting major at Iowa State University. I am very interested in things like nutrition, long distance running, and fitness. I currently work in the meat department at Hy-Vee, but hope to eventually be a certified public accountant.
Introductory Reflection
This ePortfolio will have two menus. The menu at the top of the screen will be for my English 250 work, and the menu at the bottom of the screen will be for the pages for English 150. You can find my two posts under the Electronic tab of the menu. They are over the Hong Kong protests and social media.
Essay to Instructor
Throughout the semester I have learned a lot about writing, communicating, and a lot of other things that I never would have thought I was going to learn in English 250. My skills as a writer and presenter have drastically increased from this class. We had a variety of activities in class that had a huge impact on the quality of my assignments throughout the semester.
At the start of the semester, I thought that I had a pretty decent idea of how to write essays, but I was actually pretty rusty because I hadn’t really worked at it over the summer. My first couple of assignments didn’t really have a great thesis or hook, but these improved throughout the semester. I am very confident that my A5 assignment was my best because I had the most practice for it, and it was over a topic I was passionate about. I also put a lot of work and research into it. This assignment had to have a lot of outside works cited, and this was new to me because in the past I had only used a couple outside sources. During this assignment I had nine different sources, and it was a longer essay than previous ones, so there was a lot of work that went into it. I also learned a lot about presenting during English 250. The first presentation I gave I wasn’t very confident, and I didn’t really know what I was talking about. I struggled on this presentation, but with the extra practice that we did in class and that I did on my own I did a lot better during the five minute presentation. Learning to present was just one thing that we learned in English 250 that I wasn’t really expecting that we would learn. We also learned a lot more like: how to use Photoshop, all kinds of current events, YouTube, Elon Musk, and many more things.
To be completely honest this was the class that I was dreading the most when I signed up for classes. I am an accounting major, so pretty much all of my classes are business/accounting classes that are much easier for me. I never really enjoyed writing or giving speeches, but this class actually ended up being one of my favorites. I really think you did a great job of teaching this class because we learned about a lot of different things that made this class a lot more interesting. I am confident that my communication skills have gotten much better. Thank you for making English 250 much more enjoyable than I was expecting.