Design Decisions

The goals I try to reach through my decision to make my portfolio a blog through Medium, are making the chronological order aspect clear as to how I, as a writer, have improved throughout the quarter. I want to be able to present to my audience that I have developed a stronger skill of design in my writing and how I illustrate that through the medium I use. My portfolio title “Bullying: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” is significant because it is the title to my final presentation essay about bullying, which is the overall outcome of my portfolio. The way my portfolio is set up is in a chronological order. It starts off with this piece about my design decisions, then my retrospective analysis, my five artifacts in order by date, my final essay, and then my prospective analysis. I believe that having my portfolio set up this way will give an effect of a timeline of improvement for the reader to experience and understand. Themes I try to incorporate by using this medium to showcase my portfolio is using media to share your own thoughts and creations and a theme of transliteracy. I want the way my portfolio is presented to speak to any reader in a way that they understand. They would need to have technology knowledge as far as knowing how to use a computer on a basic level. Then, my portfolio is an easy read because all the readers would have to do is scroll down to get from one piece of the timeline to the next. The medium I use is plain, but I believe that I do not need a fancy blog or website to help my readers to comprehend why I designed my portfolio the way I did, or the contents of my portfolio. It is clear, once you start to read through, that it is a timeline of development because of how I incorporate dates specifically in my artifacts. I placed my prospective analysis writing portion at the end of my portfolio because after I have laid out my entire portfolio, I want to tie everything together. Describing how I want to use what I have learned throughout my quarter in English 101 will be my final thoughts and ideas, bringing everything together and closing out the entirety of my portfolio.