The Valpo Core Reader
 

Authors

Barb Hansen

Document Type

Portfolio Introduction Essay

Publication Date

2001

Excerpt

This portfolio is an expression of what I have "picked up" this semester. This semester seemed to teach me that I could relate to some of the characters' feelings, experiences, and emotions. The principal skill that I learned in my writing was to integrate some my own experience into my papers. Prior to this semester, I seemed to just take papers for face value. I didn't try to "dig" very far into them. It seems that through the writing process this semester, I was able to learn how to find meaning behind the meaning in most of the books that we have read. After finding these "alternate meanings," I was able to integrate them into my writing, and I think these insights created a uniqueness in my writing. The common theme in the three papers that I chose to enter in my portfolio is that learning a life lesson can dramatically alter one's life.

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