Reflective Essay On Immigration Class

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Once I found my topic it became easier, and went straight into work. I asked the people closest to me their personal experiences on coming to the United States. I was really proud of the way I told the personal stories. I tried my best to portray their personalities and experiences into my paper. My goal for my audience was to create an understanding towards immigrants. In my Writing 104 class for this semester our first topic was a literacy memoir. I decided to write about a previous paper I had written about. I felt that it was easier and harder at times. It was easier because I had all the information that I needed to write the paper. All I had to do was write the paper in a different type of form, which was actually the hard part. I …show more content…
I wrote my profile on my mom, Aracely. In the beginning of this assignment I had no idea who I was going to write about. When I went to class last week and we went over the paper from a prior student, it really helped me out a lot. I also had a cousin like the subject in that paper so I though I would write something similar. But I didn’t think that would be original so I thought it over again and thought about my mom. Because she has been through so much I thought it would be perfect. I went over my memories of conversations we had and then my personal memories I had as a kid. By doing this it prepared me to write the profile of …show more content…
I have recognized the different rhetorical situations in different types of writing by the two assignments I have identified in this portfolio: the literacy memoir and the profile. The literacy memoir is an assignment about an event that I had that that to do with writing or language. In the profile assignment it is an assignment about sharing someone without including yourself at all. In 1.b. I have recognized the different approaches within the different assignments in the literacy memoir and the profile. In 1.c. I have demonstrated I know this learning outcome within my two writing assignments because of the post-writes I have written after I have submitted the final

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