The papers I am including in my portfolio is the news story, the application essay, the trend essay and proposal essay.
I am including the news story in my portfolio because personally I feel that that was my best piece. I think I did a good job interviewing the person on the subject I was talking about and got a lot of information. I also liked how I incorporated the interview into my piece. I am using the application essay for one of my portfolio pieces because I think it came out good because I was talking about a subject that interested me. I think I did a good job of talking about what the prompt was asking. I discussed in great detail why I was interested in that major and some of the experiences I have had in the subject. I also talked a little bit about why I thought picking that school would be the best choice. The third piece I am choosing for my portfolio is the trend essay. The trend I choose for the essay was something I am interested in. I knew I was going to do the essay on the subject right away. I feel that the trend I choose was a very popular trend and it shows in the graph I provided. I think I gave good cause and effects of divorce, the trend I chose. The fourth essay I chose for my portfolio is the proposal essay. I chose this as one of the portfolio pieces because the subject was something I felt strongly about. I talked about something that I could relate to. I also think my solution to the problem is a realistic solution and could solve some of the problem.
The news story assignment called for writing a story on a local newsworthy subject. We were asked to talk, in detail, about the story and interview one person who is directly involved in the story. The application essay called for choosing a prompt from a college website and addressing what it is asking you. When writing this essay we had to give evidence that we understood what was being asked and to have an understanding of who we were addressing this to. The trend essay called for writing about a trend. We had to use at least two scholory articles to provide evidence. Also, talk about the causes and effects of the trend. The proposal essay called for addressing a problem in your community or at the college. We were asked to state the problem clearly and propose a possible solution to the problem. Also, use one source from online or a newspaper.
Some changes I made in the news story piece was coming up with a conclusion. I did not have a conclusion on my first draft but after giving it some thought I was able to come up with a good one. I also chose a name of a newspaper and a headline. For the application essay I made a few changes. For example, in the first draft I didn't mention the name of the school. But in the second draft I talked a little bit about why I chose that school and why I thought I was going to get the best education there. For the trend essay my partner suggested was making the causes and effects a little bit clearer. I can see how a reader might not think I had the causes and effects. She also suggested I could talk about when divorce rate peaked. Also what effects does my trend, divorce, have not someone's self esteem. Some changes I made to the proposal essay is making it clearer what the problem I was talking about was. I was talking about how waiting in line to get books took a long time but in my paper I stated that the cost of books is very high.
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