“The way you communicate reveals everything about you. Words are the clothes your thoughts wear.”

Amanda Patterson

About the Portfolio

Reading, writing, speaking, and listening—essential skills in a digital age where news travels fast and rumors travel faster. It is vital to continually develop these skills if one wishes to thrive. The purpose of this portfolio is to display the development of such skills from written papers and oral presentations to progress reflections.

Photo by Lydia Samuelson

About the Author

Lydia Samuelson is an English and Technical Communications double major at Iowa State university. She loves reading and writing, and aims to use her skills creating literature and online content to become a master of both factual and fictional content.

Lydia enjoys spending time in the outdoors, frequently going on nature walks or simply reading in the sunshine. Though her other hobbies include clay sculpting and pyrography, she loves creating fictional worlds, both written and verbal, and sharing them with her friends.