This page is intended to present details about my overall work

Throughout this semester, I had learned many things. I had learned to explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations, developed strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing, recognized and practiced key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations, engaged in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes, understood and used print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences, locate research sources, such as academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles, in the CUNY library databases/archives and on the Internet and learned to evaluate them for their credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias, composed texts that integrate my stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation, and practice systematic application of citation conventions.

In my portfolio, I had shown how I had developed “reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing,” skill through including my drafts and peer reviews for my work. Each of the peer reviews has a significance in improving my work. It had helped my development as a writer while paying close attention to the writing itself in order to give me examples of my strengths and weakness as a writer. I had also found Ms. Poe’s edits and remarks helpful on my work.

Take my literary narrative as an example. For the Literary narrative essay, the prompt was to  “write a narrative essay about a significant event or experience that demonstrates how your identity affects or has affected your relationship with literacy or vice versa; or a parallel experience you share with a literary character, how this experience changed you and your perspective, as well as a comparison of your response to that of the chosen character.” For this essay, I had used my personal experiences and how that has shaped who I am as a reader. In order to organize my essay coherently, I had my essays rough draft edited and revised by my peers and my teacher in order to understand what I was missing in my essay. For this essay, the purpose of my literary narrative was to touch upon the topic of the lack of diversity in books and racism. My main audience is readers, I had used my past experiences to help the readers understand how the lack of diversity in books creates a lack of trust in authors. My stance for the essay was a mixture of both sentimental and informal, due to it being taken from my point of view.

This format was often reused into my other essay, where I had kept my tone and stance formal even though the topic and genre had changed. Overall, through this class, I had learned many things about myself as a writer and I hope to learn more through my other classes.