This portfolio no only shows my own topic of concussions, but mainly shows how I have grown and earned as a writer this semester. I tried to make this whole portfolio in order of what the class did this semester to help show the growing process. Most of the class work is in order, a few might be out of place, but not noticeably out of place. I did decide to keep some of the class work (the research topic collage and synthesis chart) out of the class work section, because I felt they fit better under another tab. I tried to explain each piece of work in the portfolio either before and/or after the work. That way the reader (you) could better understand what each part was. The class work might not show my growth as well as the 3 main projects did. I say that because a lot of the class work was just quickly done in a class period and does not necessarily show who I am as a writer. The projects on the other hand required a lot of time and effort and if you compare my writing in the first project to writing in the second and more so the third project, it is a world of difference. I think you can even tell by looking at the different design plans that I have grown through out the semester. (one growth for sure is that I can post all this stuff to blogger now).
I did not pick my topic till I was already part way into doing my photo essay, even from there I thought I wanted to go a slightly different direction. During the first the writing assignment I originally was going to analysis the Red Cross webpage. Which is nothing like my end topic of concussions being dangerous to people's health. I knew I wanted a research topic in the field of sports medicine, so that is when I changed to do an rhetorical analysis of the American College of Sports Medicine homepage. After that project we wrote about possible topics and I still did not think I would do concussions, but it was there in the back of my mind. When trying to start my photo essay I realized doing symptoms of concussions would make a good photo essay. That is when I started focusing on concussions. It was not until I completed my research I realized concussions are dangerous because of the conditions developed after a concussions (not that I did not think concussions were dangerous, I just never realized the dangers of the conditions that are later developed). Since I never had set goals for my research it allowed me through out the semester to research with an open-mind different areas allowing me to settle on one that I love. It is a topic with controversy that I did not realize was there before I researched it, because to me it seems obvious that getting a concussion (hurting one of the most important organs in the body, the brain) would obviously be dangerous. Not realizing people are in denial that it is a dangerous injury and that dangerous condition can develop from concussions.
p.s. I would like to apologize if pictures of documents look silly, some of my work would lose its formatting if I copied paste everything so I converted documents to pictures and uploaded pictures to the blog.
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