Reflective Essay: A Career As A Pharmacist

Enclosed in this portfolio is a collection of my work that shows my growth and progression as a writer throughout the semester. The pieces displayed in this portfolio are the four major assignments we completed over the semester: the investigative field essay, annotated bibliography and literature review, rhetorical analysis, and the multimodal proposal and project. Each assignment encompasses a topic that relates back to my major as chemistry, or my projected occupation as a pharmacist. I hope to have my assignments demonstrate key skills I have gained within ENC 2135: compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with sources; analyzing and interpreting complex texts and representations of meaning in a variety of formats; and understanding how genre …show more content…
Getting a start on this paper was challenging as I had no idea how to tackle all of the research and interviews, and then compile all of the information I gathered in a cohesive document. Through countless hours of research, interviews, drafting, and revising I created a document I was confident in turning in. Peer reviews and time allotted in class to complete this paper set me at ease, allowing me to complete the essay on time. My final product truly encompassed what my life will be like as a chemistry major and in the pharmaceutical field. I was pleased how the essay flowed between credentials, interviews, and research I conducted beforehand. I believe my work for this assignment correlates with the goal, ‘compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with sources,’ stated on the syllabus. I believe the introduction to my investigative field essay demonstrates my integration of research into my own words as a writer, as show in the photo excerpt below of my investigative field essay.This assignment allowed me to explore my major and ultimately in the end it gave me the idea of changing my major to something else in the science