Portfolio Analysis: Improving My Writing Skills

Pujitha Raj Mallampalli

Engl 3003

Prof: Dale Ireland

Date: 11/19/17

Portfolio Analysis Essay

During the 9 weeks of this course, I believe I improved my writing skills a lot. Even though I took this course just as a part of satisfying WST requirement, I got connected with the course work. Now I like this course more than any of my other courses because I was very interested in doing the exercises and started enjoying it. When I started enjoying doing the writing exercises, my writing started improving proportionally. I believe I met the WST requirement because I improved my writing during the course of time by learning techniques of writing by experimenting new structures like ethos, pathos and logos, rectifying my mistakes through peer reviews,

I experimented different sentence formats and structures in the process of using ethos, pathos and logos in my sentences. I worked hard for writing sentences and essays that satisfies rhetorical triangle because it does not come to me easily.

With peer review exercises, I learnt how to correct other’s mistakes and also how to rectify my mistakes in writing. Feedback is as important as writing an essay because we tend to make grammatical mistakes, we might repeat sentences, etc. It is great that if you have someone to read over the essay and give feedback. This helps to clean up the writing and I believe my writing improves with other people’s suggestions.

Once it is said that, ‘Practice makes man perfect’. In context with the quotation, I believe practice is directly proportional to perfection. The more you practice, the more perfect you become. In the same way, the more you practice reading and writing, the more your writing becomes perfect. After I took this class I started reading a lot, I started observing writing techniques of others, I started researching more on writing. This helped me a lot to attain professional