Daneka
Gibson
ENC 1101
Professor Longhany
December 3,
2016
Portfolio Cover Letter
Throughout this semester in ENC1101,
I have learned a lot of things about myself and my writings. I believe the constant essays and the chance
to allow myself to improve helped me in ways that I would not have if I didn’t attend
this class. There are 4 outcomes that I was expected to meet and whether I did
or not should have shown in my writing
Outcome 1
I demonstrated an understanding for
the writing process but I believe that in the beginning my writing was very
lazy. When coming into this class the first essay we had was the Literacy Narrative,
because I was so used to writing high school prompted essays when it came down
to how to write new essays I was stuck. I tend to not retain memory that I don’t
care for so having to really think about my past experiences, so when I had to
it was hard especially since my literacy past was not so advanced and I expressed
that in the essay when I said ” So I was basically just “half doing things” and skimming
through books just to get the information that I need out of it and then I was
done with it. Now, I barely read books and its really messing me up having to
read hundreds of pages a week for multiple classes”.
Outcome
2
I didn’t demonstrate awareness
of rhetorical situations. The whole way throughout using rhetorical situations
I was confused and all the times I tried to look it up and read the text it appears
it wasn’t coming to me in the way that I wanted it to. In the essay contest/
rhetorical analysis we had to use our skill on rhetorical situations and I
believe that was my worse essay just based on my lack of knowledge to
understand the rhetorical situations. It made my essay dull and repetitive because
I didn’t know so I was just rambling to say something to fill the essay up. I
did though know how to change my writing up to fit different writing contexts.
When writing the contest portion on the analysis/contest I wrote very well and probably
because it was on a topic that appealed to me and a lot of other people I the
world ad because I got to changed up the way that I write. I had a prompt to
follow yet I was free to say what I wanted to say and I could be flexible with
my writing and change it up to make it appealing to whomever would read it.
Outcome
3
I could demonstrate my
capabilities as a reader of complex text. Throughout the semester, every essay
we had we were appointed to review out peer’s papers and give feedback. By reviewing essays, I could look at different
way that people write their essays and give them advice on how I write
mine. By having my essays reviewed I could
retain that information that people were giving me and noticing the obvious
mistakes that I had failed to see that they pointed out to me so that I could
correct them and make my essay better. Peer reviews gave me the chance to
really review myself before other did just out of habit. It helped me be more
detailed and more aware of my may grammar issues that would help my essay be
better.
Outcome
4:
I demonstrated an awareness
of the relationship between disclosure conventions, lexis, genres, and their
communities by analyzing Beyoncé’s fan base the Beyhive. In my ethnography, I identified the way that Beyoncé
communicated directly with her fans, how they feel about her and how they communicate
between themselves. I also showed how them as a fan base with do anything to
back Beyoncé up from people who talked down or about her. From my ethnography,
I got that the community of people all around the world communicate for one
thing and that fascinated me that different cultures of people could come
together for one thing. All my papers from this semester were MLA formatted.
