Month: December 2017

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Introductory Reflection

Welcome to my ePortfolio, the platform that showcases all the work that I have completed in this class. Within the tabs above or scrolling below will help you navigate the assignments completing this class, and browse the progress that I have made about becoming a better writer.

 

Derek,

My growth in this class as a writer and a communicator has been much greater than I ever expected coming into this class. Every assignment that we completed resulted in some sort of improvement in the WOVE. My favorite assignment this year was the documented essay, because it forced me to look at both sides of the argument. It changed the way that I approached writing. Every assignment this semester challenged my creativity, and each assignment motivated me to progressively get better. I have had a lot of fun in this class, and I want to thank you for everything you thought me.

From your favorite student, Thank You!

Logan Sass

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Electronic Communication Reflection

The ePortfolio was the main theme for the class because everything that we need was posted on our website. I think this helped us as a student because it allowed us to showcase our work. With the ePortfolio, becoming the author of web content had its advantages because we had more authority about what was posted on our website, and how It was published, and what it looked like. Everything about our ePortfolio was up to us. The ePortfolio really helped spark our creative mind, just as any other assignment did, and with creating our ePortfolio in this class, it opens the door for me to create web content in a more professional setting.

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-OVE Reflection: Visual Rhetorical Analysis

My Visual Rhetorical Analysis was my first -OVE opinion, not only based on the content, but also how it helped me improve as a student, In the assignment, I tried to interest the audience by using a visual that is not often seen in advertisement. Most advertisements feature athletes or models, while my visual showed a young, out-of-shape kid. I think what the assignment showed about me is that I am very raw in oral communication, but that does not mean that I am not willing to get better. I think that this assignment connects with other assignments because of the way I approached it. I was never afraid to do something wrong or work on something that was not within my realm of comfortability. Every assignment, I approached it with the view that there was only room for improvement, and I think that mindset helped me be successful in the class.

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Final Reflection Prompt

The beginning of the semester, my goal was to become a better writer. Nothing extraordinary or specific, just get better. With the conclusion of ENGL 250, I now realize that there is so much more to becoming that writer that I aspired to be. Within the WOVE, I have become better in every aspect. My oral and visual had become the most improved through the Visual Analysis. I loved to hate that assignment because it forced me to get out of my comfort zone and sit in front of the camera, something that I had yet to be accustomed too. It was awkward and uncomfortable but I think that I became a better writer because of it. The ePortfolio helped me improve my electronic communication, because it allowed me to showcase my writing and proved the importance of networking. Even though the ePortfolio was shared with a small amount of people, it is still more people that got to see your work than if those documents were kept within the files of my computer. The final thing that I improved on is my writing, the one thing that I strived to be better at in the beginning of the semester. Through ENGL 250, the writing assignments that we had, each and every paper made me a better writer. My comfort zone was pushed as I had never been challenged in my writing before this class. Each paper that I wrote was approached in a different way, and overall I think I have improved because of it. What I have written in this class versus what I wrote in high school are lightyears apart, which I think shows that I still have a lot of room for improvement. In the future, the things that I learned in this class will stay with me for the rest of my journalistic career, and I will continue to get better. For now, I will write with what I learned in ENGL 250, my favorite class of first semester.