First off, I would like to once again thank you for reading my e-Portfolio and my cover letter, it means a lot to me that someone is taking time out of their day, even if they do not have a choice, to read my work over all the other wonderful e-Portfolios that have been created for this class.
For me, Writing 102 was a way for me to learn how I can take my existant writing skills and apply them to a style and format more befitting of a college student. This class taught me a variety of necessary skills like making citations but also taught me how to write longer papers, improve how I write sentences, and even reminded me of some grammatical rules I had forgotten a long time ago. At this current moment in time, I am working to get myself on the proper academic path to becoming a secondary English teacher, and in that profession I will always need to know and use my writing skills to be successful. Developing these skills will allow me to use them in the future to …show more content…
However, I have never been a fan of podcasts, my attention span has simply never been long enough to listen to one, so I was afraid that I would have trouble finding a topic using a podcast. The day after we were given the assignment to draft the essay, I decided to listen to an episode while on a train home, purely to get it over with, but surprisingly I enjoyed the podcast and had very little trouble finding a subject for my paper. The process of writing the paper was not incredibly difficult but it did end up becoming challenging once I had to start finding sources, but I did end up finding everything I needed. The process would have been a lot harder if my professor had not shown the class how to use the library’s databases, and citing it would have been impossible if we had not read the entire MLA handbook, so I am happy we took the time in class to address these
For me, Writing 102 was a way for me to learn how I can take my existant writing skills and apply them to a style and format more befitting of a college student. This class taught me a variety of necessary skills like making citations but also taught me how to write longer papers, improve how I write sentences, and even reminded me of some grammatical rules I had forgotten a long time ago. At this current moment in time, I am working to get myself on the proper academic path to becoming a secondary English teacher, and in that profession I will always need to know and use my writing skills to be successful. Developing these skills will allow me to use them in the future to …show more content…
However, I have never been a fan of podcasts, my attention span has simply never been long enough to listen to one, so I was afraid that I would have trouble finding a topic using a podcast. The day after we were given the assignment to draft the essay, I decided to listen to an episode while on a train home, purely to get it over with, but surprisingly I enjoyed the podcast and had very little trouble finding a subject for my paper. The process of writing the paper was not incredibly difficult but it did end up becoming challenging once I had to start finding sources, but I did end up finding everything I needed. The process would have been a lot harder if my professor had not shown the class how to use the library’s databases, and citing it would have been impossible if we had not read the entire MLA handbook, so I am happy we took the time in class to address these