“Presentation” of e Portfolio

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Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Alberto Chonillo. The presentation I am making today involves the work I have completed for my English class for the spring 2011 semester. Although ENG 151 is an early class that is usually taken by freshmen and sophomores, I am taking it during my second half of my junior year. With that being said, I can easily state that I improved my analytical writing with this class and I wish I’d taken it sooner. I would have saved a lot of frustration from difficulty writing other papers and saved money from smashing keyboards out of frustration.

So I would like to begin presenting my work from this semester’s English class with my personal statement. In this piece I give a little history of my life and future goals. Nothing out of the ordinary. I am an older student, but I’m not quite yet ready to collect social security.

My next post is the Rhetorical Analysis. I wrote about an article where a reporter talks to a Pittsburgh Steeler player about choosing words carefully during an interview. The article was written about a week before the Super bowl and I thought the subject was relevant since many people watch the Super Bowl. In addition, I’d never thought I would hear of a reporter and pro football player basically have a conversation on rhetoric.

My third article was about internet privacy. I spoke of comments and pictures that can come back to haunt a person in the future. I learned that one should be careful what they put on the internet. In the age of Facebook and Twitter, one has to be very careful what they put out there because once it is out there, it isn’t going away.

The next post was about social utopia. I wrote about several viewpoints on what could be a utopia. However, there can never be utopia because one’s utopia could easily be another’s dystopia. I had to use work from different people with different ideas on a utopia and it’s interesting because a utopia is different for each person.

My fifth article is about reflection on note taking. This skill has become very valuable to me because my thoughts that I write down during the note taking becomes very important when I write a draft. The notes help my thoughts flow as well as any new ideas that I think of at that moment. Note taking will become very handy during my senior seminar in Political Science/Philosophy next semester.

My final article is about the Research Prospectus. After doing some research, I decided to write about affirmative action and how it is no longer needed. This may be a controversial topic to some, but I made my argument which will appear on my blog soon and I think it is compelling to say the least.

Well, as I conclude my presentation, I’d like to say that my research paper will soon be up and that will probably be my last posting for this class. The class wasn’t a party, but I always look at a finished semester as an experience, and even though this English class was online, I learned a lot and read a lot of interesting articles. As we all move forward, let us learn from our experiences and let them enrich our lives as most positive experiences do.

My name is Alberto Chonillo and I thank you for your time.