Composition 1 Portfolio
Presentation
By: Jake Smith
December 2000
Introduction
• I discovered that I need to work on
grammar, and explaining myself better
when I am writing papers.
• I also discovered that I am good at figuring
out a topic to write about.
Changes in my writing this
semester
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I have learned to write an effective summary.
I have learned how to cite sources correctly.
I have learned 4 ways to organize essays.
I know the features of a good thesis statement.
What I have learned.
Student Option 1
Student Option 2
I have learned how to write an
effective summary
• The main essentials for a summary are a
good introduction, main points, and a good
conclusion.
• My effective summary.
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I know how to cite sources
correctly in my writing
• The style I learned was citing sources from
a book.
• I think it is important to cite sources
because the person that did work needs
credit for it.
• My cited source.
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I have learned 4 ways to organize
essays
• There are 4 ways to organize essays. There
is the Compare and Contrast, the
Informative Essay, and the Persuasive
Essay. The one I liked was the Compare
and Contrast essay because you could
compare something to another thing and
maybe change somebody’s mind.
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I know the features of a good
thesis statement
• The features of a good thesis statement are it has
to be clear and concise. It has to be easy to
understand, and it has to be related to your paper
or essay.
• I feel that my best thesis statement is from the
compare and contrast essay. “Think of going to a
school where nobody knows who you are.” I feel
that is a good one because it is easy to understand,
and it is related to my paper.
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What I have learned
• What I have learned in this class is going to be
very valuable to me. I have learned how to cite
sources from many different places. I have also
learned how to understand poetry, that was pretty
cool. I never thought I would ever understand
poetry, the only poetry I really ever understood
was Dr. Suess. He was the man. I have learned
many other things, but the slide isn’t big enough to
list them.
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Student Option 1
• One of the things I have learned through
this course is how to eliminate wordiness of
some of my sentences. I used to have a real
problem with that.
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Student Option 2
• For the second thing I have learned (ha ha,
I’ve learned more than 2 things). I learned
how to not use words that aren’t really
words. Like in one of my power point
presentations I used the word “funnest”. I
had no idea that that wasn’t a word.
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Conclusion
• I feel that my strengths were choosing
topics to write on. I never really had
trouble thinking of something to write on.
• My Goals for next semester in Comp 2 is to
do better than I did the first semester. And
hand everything in on time. If I do that, I
will be very happy.
Level One and Level Two
• Well, for the first part of the year, I feel that I was
on the level one part of the writing skills. I also
felt that I wasn’t that great at writing paragraphs
and stuff like that.
• Towards the end of the year, in my personal
opinion, I felt I stepped it up to the level two
writing skills. I started to write better sentences
and paragraphs. I felt I improved overall in
writing this semester. I can only hope I do better
next semester.