Category: Reflections

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

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.

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.

The textual analysis was an interesting approach to writing that I had never really experienced before. When deciding the article, I wanted to find something that was prevalent in today’s news, and nothing fit the bill more than Hurricane Harvey. More specifically, I wanted to try and right something that was outside of my comfort zone. My end goal is to work somewhere within sports media, but I also realize that I may not be involved with sports writing right away so I like to use opportunities such as this to strengthen my skills writing about other topics. The persuasive strategies that I decided to write about were not ones that I had to search for, but rather ones that I casually noticed as the reader the first time I read the article. Because of that, my thesis remained the same throughout most of the process. I enjoyed the article and admired how well it was written, which made it easier to make points within my analysis. I read the article a few times, just refresh on ideas that I wanted to include within my analysis.

After my peer review, a few things were brought to my attention about how I could take my analysis to the next step. One thing that I struggled with in the previous writing assignment and wanting to get better at was my transitions between body paragraphs. When writing my rough draft, I felt like I was getting a little better but still needed a grasp as to what makes a good transition. After meeting with the professor and my peers, I made changes and now feel that my transitions were the most improved part of my analysis and writing as a whole.

 

Throughout the process of writing the article analysis, I learned a lot about myself as a writer. In my first college writing assignment, I could sense the immaturity, for lack of a better word, in my writing style. I felt like I was falling short of what I was presenting to the reader but didn’t know how to fix it. I think part of the problem was that I was trying to be too detailed, but I stretched too much to try and achieve that and ended up downgraded the paper as a whole in my opinion. Overall, I think that I know what I want to get across to the reader, I am just having a hard time translating that in my writing. I I wanted to write with a more professional style but I am just not there yet as a writer, and that was probably the most difficult thing I had to face in this assignment. In my next assignment, my goal is to have more flow in my writing instead of being so choppy.