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.
Iowa State University – ePortfolio