At the beginning of this semester, I was tasked with creating an ePortfolio. Now that it's the end of the semester, I have some final updates and edits I have to do for this project. For this project, I decided to edit my immersion experience and my multi-modal overview. I chose to edit my immersion experience as I felt that it had a lot of potential behind it. I needed to rearrange some of the information I put in it and needed to finish off with a better introduction and conclusion. After making these edits and adding more pictures, pull-out quotes, and hyperlinks, I think it has become a very successful piece. The second project I decided to revise was the multi-modal overview. I chose this piece as I wanted to improve my overall WIX page and this was the way to do it. I edited a bit of the writing that went along with this project, but overall I made some major changes to the website. I think these changes have significantly helped this WIX page reach a higher level of skill than it previously had.

 

 

One of the course goals for this semester was to be able to reflect on writing practices in order to be able to improve them. I feel as if this is something that I've improved on throughout this semester. One specific moment in which I reflected on my writing and edited it to fit the W131 practices is in my immersion experience. I said "Being eco-friendly is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "not environmentally harmful." This is a very scripted and definition based sentence for an intro. It also doesn't fit any of the W131 introduction strategies. Rather than doing this, I changed my intro so that it will start with a quote instead. "Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products" (Recycling). This is a W131 opening strategy and is of better use than the original opening that I had. It draws the reader in and gives a general overview of what I was going to be talking about. By making this change, I took a step in the direction of improving my writing and being able to reflect on the writing strategies that I was taught. 

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Another course goal for this semester is to be able to successfully use sources in the writing projects. This has been a goal I've been successful with, in that I've used sources for both my film review and immersion experience. By tying the quotes into what I was writing about, and then reflecting upon said quote, I've been able to synthesize and critically think about what was being said. This also helps my writing go to another level with more information and another point of view. 

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Being able to properly peer review is a personal goal of mine, one of which I think I successfully reached this semester. Specifically, the peer reviews I did for the film review. I believe that I was able to provide helpful feedback to my peers and from that feedback, I was able to improve upon my own writing. I was able to gather ideas and look back at my writing from another perspective and see what I should change.

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This semester, I feel that I've grown significantly as a writer. When looking back on what I was writing at the beginning of the semester, I feel as if I'm a completely different person. The strategies and methods that I've been taught have significantly improved my skills and helped me become the best writer I possibly could be.