Reflective Essay: Portfolio Competency

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Portfolio Competency: Reflection Essay With taking an English composition course, I expected to get assigned readings from numerous of texts, essays, poetry, etc. I also expected an English composition course to have more writing assignments than they were assigned. I was thinking more of summarizing what I read in a text from what I was required to read. For essays, I had in mind that I was going to get a bunch of essays thrown at me and having to develop an argument and have to support my argument with evidence and include examples. Along with wiring a lot of essays, I expected to have to revise a lot of essays, proofreading so that I can improve my writing skills but my reading skills as well. Besides writing and reading, I expected …show more content…

Now that I got a better understanding of the writing process, my feelings changed because I was told by my instructor what areas in my essays I needed to work on, resulting with the changes I made in my essay, I feel more confident. My essay changed from one version to the next, by changing a bit of my thesis statement as well as providing more details about my targeted audience. Also I included how I felt about the ad itself as well as including more details about the campaign and more information on the spokesperson that was featured in the ad. My final version shows my progression in the course and demonstrates a clear understanding of the course outcomes is by going above and beyond with my essay as well as expanding it even though I was not told to do

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