Mid-Term Portfolio
So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? ~American History X
Introduction:
This portfolio is here to lay it all on the line I suppose: What have I done? What have I learned? This Mid-Term Portfolio is comprised of three elements of English that I've worked on throughout my semester in Writing 102 at Bridgewater State University. The first project is simple; the blogging of my thoughts, feelings and opinions on specific topics or readings that we've covered on both my personal blog and Blackboard class discussions. Some are simple blurbs on what I thought about after a reading about a night at a famous truck stop, while others are personal feelings about a writer's attention to detail, and the important need to capture ever sense on paper.
The other works are aren't simple building blocks like blogs and single paragraph thoughts. They are solid theories, memories and observations from the life I lived, and the one I am living now. It didn't seem fair to write an Ethnography on a subject other than sports. I could write a research paper on Starbucks because I stop and grab a medium hot chocolate in the Academic Achievement Center in the school library everyday. I go easily go in to detail about how the same two sweet older ladies are always on duty to take my order, and how the smell of the area reminds me of my overnight stay at Wheaton College with the provost of Art History. But I've never bled for Starbucks, or cried or sweat.
My only attributes even close to talent have been with words and on a sports field. It is my hope that with this portfolio I can use one to fully bring to life the thrill and culture of the other, and show how some people were raised not by parents, but by their team mates, and how the commitment to a sport will never die, even long after the final whistle is blown.
Introduction:
This portfolio is here to lay it all on the line I suppose: What have I done? What have I learned? This Mid-Term Portfolio is comprised of three elements of English that I've worked on throughout my semester in Writing 102 at Bridgewater State University. The first project is simple; the blogging of my thoughts, feelings and opinions on specific topics or readings that we've covered on both my personal blog and Blackboard class discussions. Some are simple blurbs on what I thought about after a reading about a night at a famous truck stop, while others are personal feelings about a writer's attention to detail, and the important need to capture ever sense on paper.
The other works are aren't simple building blocks like blogs and single paragraph thoughts. They are solid theories, memories and observations from the life I lived, and the one I am living now. It didn't seem fair to write an Ethnography on a subject other than sports. I could write a research paper on Starbucks because I stop and grab a medium hot chocolate in the Academic Achievement Center in the school library everyday. I go easily go in to detail about how the same two sweet older ladies are always on duty to take my order, and how the smell of the area reminds me of my overnight stay at Wheaton College with the provost of Art History. But I've never bled for Starbucks, or cried or sweat.
My only attributes even close to talent have been with words and on a sports field. It is my hope that with this portfolio I can use one to fully bring to life the thrill and culture of the other, and show how some people were raised not by parents, but by their team mates, and how the commitment to a sport will never die, even long after the final whistle is blown.
