The essays contained in my portfolio are part of the assignments written for the course English 101, which I took the first session of Summer 2016 at Joliet Junior College. This compilation of papers shows my progress and the effort I put to complete some of the basic core requirements to achieve an associate degree. The portfolio consists of: a literacy narrative essay, a synthesis with two sources and two argumentative essays. The essays represent my personal opinion about diverse topics assigned by the instructor. In the paragraphs below, a review of each paper will be given, complemented with a reflection about my writing performance and progress in the course.
My first essay presented was a literacy narrative essay, in which I wrote about my experience of learning to read in a second language. Recalling my memories to write this essay was easy, because is something that just happened to me few months before. The introduction was too long, but this was necessary because I had to give …show more content…
Unfortunately for personal reasons, I was not able to complete this assignment by the due date. In order to not fail other courses (whose presentations were not due on that day) I had to sacrifice the presentation of this essay. I recognized that a ‘Domino effect’ would happen with the other assignments if I devoted the necessary time to that assignment. If I could change something, it would be to think twice before taking three classes for one summer session, so I can give my whole attention to only one or two courses. My actual second essay was a synthesis using two sources. The sources were taken from the book required to take English 101. This essay was a challenge from the beginning because I had never made a synthesis in the past. Personally, I enjoyed the process of this essay, because it required a lot of thinking and crossing information from two different points of view and concluding with my own point of
My first essay presented was a literacy narrative essay, in which I wrote about my experience of learning to read in a second language. Recalling my memories to write this essay was easy, because is something that just happened to me few months before. The introduction was too long, but this was necessary because I had to give …show more content…
Unfortunately for personal reasons, I was not able to complete this assignment by the due date. In order to not fail other courses (whose presentations were not due on that day) I had to sacrifice the presentation of this essay. I recognized that a ‘Domino effect’ would happen with the other assignments if I devoted the necessary time to that assignment. If I could change something, it would be to think twice before taking three classes for one summer session, so I can give my whole attention to only one or two courses. My actual second essay was a synthesis using two sources. The sources were taken from the book required to take English 101. This essay was a challenge from the beginning because I had never made a synthesis in the past. Personally, I enjoyed the process of this essay, because it required a lot of thinking and crossing information from two different points of view and concluding with my own point of