Creating a Portfolio

Personally, I have never had to create a portfolio for an english class, so this is all new to me. In the text, it explained there are five steps to creating a porfolio. They consists of finding the: purpose, audience, genre, stance and media. I imagine the main purpose of creating a portfolio in an english class would be to keep records of written essays and different projects in the class. The other step was recognizing your audience, which is important in any written paper or anything meant to be looked at, heard or read. It is crucial to know who your audience is so you can provide information that is appealing to the audience or reader. The other aspect of creating a portfolio was deciding a genre. When you pick a form of writing for the portfolio, it should be consistent throughout. Stance ties in with the audience because once you recognize the receiver, the author should have an idea of how they want to be portrayed by them. Today forms of communication varies greatly, so I can see why media and design is one of the elements to consider when making a portfolio. You can either choose paper or of course elecronics.

Evaluations

In the text the author stresses the importance of looking for a phone that has the main basic qualities. In the text the author evauluates the cell phone and its features. The author goes in to detail explaining the importance of these features in a phone and why they are needed. One of the features presented was the push to talk feature, compared to the walkie talkie. Although this feature may have been important when the article was published, now it is not the main feature people look for when they go hunting for a phone. Now I would say texting features many people look for and the apps in a cell phone. In the evaluation, I think there was a certain expectation the author had for cell phones, and that will most likely change over time.

Evaluating Fairly

I realize that when you are evaluating something you look at the most important aspect that interest you. For instance if you were going to evaluate a movie. The part in the movie that struck you the most would probablly be evaluated. When evaluating something you need to have a justified reason for backing your belief up. This is very important, so people will have a reason to agreee with you or disagree. One way you can do this is by quotes that were given either in the movie or book.

Project Winding Down

This past week our group met at the library. Our goal was to revise our writing, add more pictures if needed and decide what we needed for our survey. One of my group members and I, explained to everyone in the group what we thought was the main problem. Some of these ideas we got from the writing center. One of my group members and I went to the writing center this past week. It was very helpful. Our instructor gave us points on how we should make sure each page is in the same format. She gave suggestions on how we should make sure each page is the same in length and our message is to the point. Overall the writing center was really helpful for our group project, because it gave us helpful ideas to bring back to our group.

Plans for the Project

One of the ways I plan to show why people use facebook is by taking a survey. The survey will consists of seven different reasons people might use facebook. Each person is supposed to select all the reasons that apply. The survey will be given to random people who already have a facebook page. It will be posted on the status and a link will be sent to people randomly. There will not be a specific group, the selection of people will be varied. In this study, we want to get feedback from people of different gender, ages, and race. This way we will have a more broad feedback.