English is one of those subjects that I never really expect to gain much from, but to my surprise I learned a lot from this course. Writing has never been my forte and it is not that I am bad at writing, writing is just something that does not come to me naturally. I knew that there was room for improvement but could not pinpoint where exactly I had to improve. Being in this freshman composition course allowed me to clearly see the strengths and weaknesses in my writing due to being assigned multiple papers and getting direct feedback on them from you, my fellow classmates and the writing center. The three papers in this portfolio of mine show how I have improved as a writer. This portfolio contains my review paper "Interstellar: Movie To
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I thoroughly scrutinized an article titled Laugh Your Way To Better Health, by Sarah Schmelling which was about the benefits laughter had on health. I chose article because laughter is a common phenomenon in most peoples ' lives and it would be amazing to find out a simple action like this can result in better health. Analyzing this article would also allow me to determine the credibility of the article. I successfully examined the effectiveness of the article Laugh Your Way To Better Health by breaking it down and looking at it based on individual categories such as the appeal, visuals, arrangement, vocabulary, sources and similarities with other articles about laughter. I also included quotes and charts from outside sources about laughter to prove the main points in my analysis of this …show more content…
I wrote this paper all by myself without help and managed to only 3 grammatical mistakes. There also is not a single contraction in this paper whereas in the review paper I ended up using a few even after having my paper looked over by a tutor. There is one thing I would fix in this paper and that is citations, I lack proper citations in places where I paraphrased information. I was able to critically and analytically read the articles, take notes on them, combine and arrange all the information into the body paragraphs that supported my thesis. My research paper, "How Advertising Works", is the last paper in this portfolio. The purpose of the research paper is to inform people that there is more that meets the eye when it comes to advertising. I decided to do my research paper on advertisements because they are omnipresent in today 's world but yet go unacknowledged so I wanted to find out if and how advertisements influence people. I covered around nine different techniques advertisers use , all of which do, in fact, influence people even in the slightest of
I thoroughly scrutinized an article titled Laugh Your Way To Better Health, by Sarah Schmelling which was about the benefits laughter had on health. I chose article because laughter is a common phenomenon in most peoples ' lives and it would be amazing to find out a simple action like this can result in better health. Analyzing this article would also allow me to determine the credibility of the article. I successfully examined the effectiveness of the article Laugh Your Way To Better Health by breaking it down and looking at it based on individual categories such as the appeal, visuals, arrangement, vocabulary, sources and similarities with other articles about laughter. I also included quotes and charts from outside sources about laughter to prove the main points in my analysis of this …show more content…
I wrote this paper all by myself without help and managed to only 3 grammatical mistakes. There also is not a single contraction in this paper whereas in the review paper I ended up using a few even after having my paper looked over by a tutor. There is one thing I would fix in this paper and that is citations, I lack proper citations in places where I paraphrased information. I was able to critically and analytically read the articles, take notes on them, combine and arrange all the information into the body paragraphs that supported my thesis. My research paper, "How Advertising Works", is the last paper in this portfolio. The purpose of the research paper is to inform people that there is more that meets the eye when it comes to advertising. I decided to do my research paper on advertisements because they are omnipresent in today 's world but yet go unacknowledged so I wanted to find out if and how advertisements influence people. I covered around nine different techniques advertisers use , all of which do, in fact, influence people even in the slightest of