Introductory Essay

Portfolio Introduction Essay

Artifact- Work Space

This is a photo of a common work space for me. I find I get some of my best work done on the sixth floor of Mugar Library, and finding such a place is important for successful writing.

Artifact- Post-It Notes

This is a page from Absalom, Absalom! that serves as an example of my most-commonly used reading technique of using post-it notes.

Artifact- Book Notes

This is a page from Half of a Yellow Sun, showing my on-page note-taking technique for the book I bought. I have much more experience with using post-it notes, but I found I preferred writing directly on the page.

Artifact- In-class notes

Every class I tried to take careful notes of everything that was said. This was important as these discussions prompted ideas for essays. This example is from a class where we discussed the paper (top of the page) and then had a wider discussion (the rest of the page and the second page.

Artifact- Peer Revision

With the Absalom, Absalom! paper, we had a task during peer revision to read our partner’s paper and come up with the question that they seemed to be answering with their paper. This is a picture of Lily’s response to my paper, and was an important part of my writing process because I tried to write my papers by creating a question to guide myself, so it was interesting to see someone else’s opinion on that approach.

Self-Assessment Essay

Contributions to the Class Site- Annotation

Annotation

Contributions to the Class Site- Blog Post

Blog post

Paper 3

Adichie Paper

Introduction:

This paper began with similar challenges to my previous papers, as I had many ideas but was unclear as to how to use them. For this paper I scheduled to meet with my professor, and was able to gain a lot more insight into how my ideas could work together. Creating a structure for myself was important, and I think it was a good representation of how much progress I had made in realizing that. The drafting process for this paper was a bit different from my other papers. For this one, I created an outline and kept adding to it. This worked really well, as I was able to be scatter-brained for a while and then organize those many ideas and write them all into one cohesive essay relatively quickly.