Throughout this semester, eight learning objectives had to be achieved by the end of this course:

• • • Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
    • Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
    • Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
    • Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
    • Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
    • Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine, and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.
    • Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.
    • Practice systematic application of citation conventions.

This gallery showcases various coursework and writing processes that helped me achieve these learning objectives.

Inquiry Paper– Colorism in the Black Community

The writing process of putting together my inquiry paper on colorism helped me recognize many of my achievements for the learning objectives. This paper’s development allowed me to practice the proper use of APA citations. Additionally, I achieved the seventh objective because when writing, I had to integrate my stance on the issue of colorism, using not my opinions but the information from my research to prove my argument. Among the other major assignments, I developed strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing, but when creating my Colorism paper draft, I utilized revision and collaborating the most. Since it was such a long paper, I needed feedback from my peers, parents, and others I looked up to, and I made numerous revisions and updates.

This I No Longer Believe– “Mind is my Enemy” Feedback

The examples of feedback I received during the development of the draft of the first paper satisfied the learning objective of engaging in collaborative and social aspects of writing processes. Since the class did an in-person feedback session, I was able to get live feedback from my classmates and be held accountable for my mistakes and the improvements I made. With this being my first paper, it was essential to receive feedback. I had so many expectations for this paper, and I was glad that my classmates were able to see my vision and make proper suggestions on how I’d be able to expand my potential for that specific paper.

Rhetorical Analysis– Abortion Rights

This paper required research to discover and analyze rhetoric in social situations. With the topic I chose, the Abortion rights movement, I could locate sources such as news articles and social studies to evaluate the rhetorical situation and analyze how rhetoric was used to sway an audience by both opposing sides of the movement, “Pro-life” and “Pro-choice.”

Rhetorical Devices Work

The practice we did this semester with Rhetoric examples helped me reach the first and third learning objectives. Exercises like the Hypophra and Rhetorical Question assignment enabled us to recognize rhetoric in texts and use it in our own words. The other works, like the Humor & Fear appeal writing assignment, allowed us to identify real-world examples of rhetoric.

Lastly, creating this website portfolio helped me achieve the fifth learning objective because I could make an interactive environment to present my accomplishment throughout the semester and create a visual representation of my mind working while also appealing to an audience of those who view my website.