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Olivia Ross

Midterm Portfolio
March 18th 2015
UWRT 1102

For my midterm reflection I have


Writing is an
been asked to select multiple
exploration.
documents and provide evidence and
examples while answering three
You start from
overarching questions. Choosing three
nothing and learn
documents from my semester thus far
as you go.
was not an easy task. I have many that I
feel like are a good reflection of my
-E.L
writing and most of my writing pieces
have been significantly different from
the others. I have written reflections on
projects, videos, and articles. Also, I
have done some free writes which
means I just begin writing and see where it takes me. I was
able to narrow it down to three documents, which will each
individually answer a question.
For the remainder of this course, I have three goals,
which I will divide into an easy goal, medium goal, and a
challenging goal. First, for the easiest goal, I want to write
everyday so that I can improve. Secondly, for a medium
goal, I want to learn how to correctly use punctuation. The
most challenging goal of all will be, making an A in my UWRT
1102 class. I believe I will be able to reach all of these goals
and through the easy and the medium goal I should be able
to reach my most challenging goal.

A
weakness
of mine is
successful
ly writing
to the
appropriat
e
audience
with the
right
purpose.

How do you choose/discover a topic?

My first writing assignment in UWRT 1102 was to write a letter


to Mrs. Rothwell telling her about me and to expect a reply.
When I received this assignment I was very eager to begin
writing and was very impressed that my professor wanted to
take the time to get to know the class individually. She gave us
an assignment and told us it had to be a letter written to her,
about us, and that was all the instructions we were given. I
personally enjoy being given a little direction but not too much.
I like to have an assignment where I have a lot of room to write
about what I want. Being restricted in my writing causes me to
lose my train of thought and sometimes my sentences do not
go together because I am too worried about including
everything the professor expects. This happens especially when
I am told to write about a subject that I dont have a strong interest in.
I value this piece of writing because I was not restricted and could take
my writing wherever it wanted to go. In my letter, wrote enough about
me so that Mrs. Rothwell is able to know more than just my name. By
my letter she knows why I attend UNC Charlotte, what I want to get out
of her class, and some details about me personally.

How is your composing a response to your


audience?
In class we are doing a group project and our project is a study of a
problem and the feasibility of a solution to the problem. We were
assigned to create a proposal of our chosen problem. A proposal is a
persuasive and descriptive document explaining the purpose, need,
and scope of a project. Its specific information and purpose is clearly
described. Our Problem is Depression among College Students and we
wrote our proposal directed to all college students. It would be
pointless to direct our proposal to Professors or our parents because
they arent interacting everyday with college students. They would not
be able to spread information or help lower the amount of suicides
committed. I say this because teenagers do not like to go directly to
adults, they confide in their peers. College students as a whole are the
main sufferers of depression and need to know whom they can talk to

and where they can go. A sufferer is more likely to listen to a friends
advice than professors/parents. I do believe that professors/parents
can definitely help but all college students should be the first targets.
Since we decided to direct our proposal to college students we
included facts and statistics that college students can relate to
Neither of
and understand. The news has been slammed with college
us was
students committing suicide and it is an extremely prevalent
aware of
problem.

How do you find and use specifics?


At the beginning of the semester Professor Rothwell asked the
class to share what our daily current problems are and then we
were placed in groups. Each group was assigned a
My group
problem and my
groups
consisted
problem was, not
enough
of four
healthy
eating
people,
choices in
Erin, Ryan,
cafeterias.
Patrick,
We were then
and I.
to
make a
collage to go
We all
agreed on
this topic
because.

how big this


problem is
on college
campuses.

Pressure with academia is the sole reason


of depression in students.

along with our problem. After the collage we were told to


write a Narrative of the process we used to create the
collage. After turning in our narrative and it was graded,
Professor Rothwell returned it with comments and gave us the chance
to edit. My Narrative had the following comments all over it, Why?
How? Use SpecificsGo into detail. When I received my feedback I
thought to myself, wow she is a strict grader; I thought I thoroughly
described the process. Personally, I thought I had put enough details.
Once I went back and read it over with her comments, I revised it and
added all of the specifics I failed to previously mention. I was sure to
not just say My group but to list all of the group members names.
Also, to include why we chose healthy eating vs. unhealthy as our
topic. I explained how and why we did each step of the assignment.
With all of the specifics, my narrative was much easier for anyone to
follow. Luckily, this assignment was at the beginning of the semester
and ever since I have taken the extra time to include specifics. I
believe adding them makes any piece of writing improve.

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