When I was picking my summary/response source text I decided to choose the one that I can most relate to. Which was the Thurston article about being to attached to the internet. The way I choose to respond to it is my own personal experience of being unplugged when I went on my five day cruise. Initially when I was brainstorming ideas I was going to write an essay about my reaction to Thurston’s story. But as I dug deeper into the meaning behind his story, I decided to write about how I related to Thurston’s story through my own personal experience. Some of the class activities the we did in class was that we read each others essays which really helped me rewrite some the sentences that were choppy. Before I posted my essay, one of the main thing that I did was edit some of the grammatical errors and format it correctly. Some of the visuals that I used included multiple pictures from my vacation going to the Grand Cayman Islands and the Bahamas.
When I was writing my memoir essay I choose to write about a time that I was really struggling, and that in order for me to get through it I had to conquer myself doubt. In which mu essay was about my crazy last cheer season in high school.Initially writing my essay, i had a lot of unnecessary information that I needed to take out, which I later took out in my graded draft. Just like the summary/response essay, I most benefited from the peer review. The peer reviews helped me find mistakes in my essay that I might have overlooked. The main thing that I changed when I posted my final draft was that I changed the format so that I was easier to read, and fix the grammatical errors. Some the visuals I added to my memoir is a video link to one of the cheer stunts I did in my routine, and a few pictures from my cheer competition.
When I was interviewing my classmate it was a very interesting and fun experience. Upon interviewing my classmate, I did previously meet her at Bama Bound, but I did learn much more about her after interviewing her.When I started out my essay I had no idea how I wanted to start my essay nor did I know what angle I wanted to to get at. I just had all of this information and random facts, I didn’t know how to put it all together. In my graded draft I had an angle and was able to piece together all of the information. One of the class activities that most benefited from is when we got the chance to re-interview our classmate. It helped me fill in some of the spaces I had in my essay. The visuals I used in my essay included photos of my classmate running track, since that was my main angel in my profile essay.
The essay that I choose for my other work was an essay about my overall experience of my first semester of college. It describes the highs and lows I faced throughout my semester, as well as how I overcame my struggles. The essay also describes how I had to balance my academic life with my social life. This particular essay ties into the overall theme of my Eportfolio, since most of my essays consist of overcoming a challenge, and how that experience affected my life.
In the beginning of the semester, I struggled with how to correctly write an essay, since most of the things I learned in high school, did not correlate do how I am supposed to write in college. Towards the end of the semester I feel that i have developed my writing skills, not only on correctness and grammatical level, but on a creative side.