ENGL 1302 / Fall 2020 / Schedule

Week 1 10/19–10/22: Reading As A Writer

Learning Portfolio/Grading Narrative

The Learning Portfolio

Writing matters because it tells the writer’s story

Whether a writer’s piece of work is true or not, it tells readers about their lives or how they imagine things. This allows readers to gain perspective and also think in new ways. #ENGL1301

Writing is a way to better understand what you’re thinking

I believe that if I write down my thoughts, ideas flow more easily and I am able to understand what’s going on in my head. #ENGL1301

#ENGL1301 “Why I Write” by Julia DePaolo

Joan Didion captured my attention immediately just by the title: “Why I Write.” Everyone writes for a different reason, but for Joan Didion, it was discovery and imagery.

Why I write.

Back when I was around 10 years old, I always had a journal in my hand wherever I would go. I loved the feeling of going into my own world in creating poems mostly about the different seasons or about how I felt in those specific moments. I would write while we were at the dinner table. I had no…

Writing matters because it enables people to learn what they choose to. With many perspectives on endless subjects, people can go online or into a library and find so many different resources for what they wish to learn more about and can share this knowledge with the people they know. With almost 8 billion people in the world, all with their own…

Writing is What You Make it

Writing is what you make it. If writing for you is about a talking butterfly, it can be. If writing for you is about the endangered polar bears in Antarctica, it can be. If writing for you is about your personal account as a survivor, it can be. Writing can be your story or the…

Writing Is/Writing Matters

1. Writing is the ability to document a persons thoughts, feelings, emotions, and events in a way that allows for self-expression and individuality. Writing can be about yourself, someone else, a made up person, about an idea, and many other subjects. Writing is something that enables…