To Everyone Who Reads This:
First please let me express my gratitude to you for reading my portfolio. The five works in the portfolio represent what I’ve learned in Academic Writing Course taught by Ron Corio. After a semester’s study, I’ve learned quite a lot about how to write in academic way, and how to mine deep ideas from the story I’ve learned.
The three essays represent my progress of thinking over the story of “Dead Men’s Path”. Though I’m confident of my writing skills, I have to commit that I’ve made quite a few mistakes, such as grammatical errors and improper quotes in the first two ones. Fortunately, I received help from Ron and Daisy Xu and also from some other students. So I think that the third essay is not just a work of me, but is a co-achievement of the whole class. It expresses my understanding of the story and the improving writing skill from six month’s learning.
As to the final timed-writing, this is a test essay which expresses my timed-writing skills’ improvement, and the understanding of “Dead Men’s Path” from another side. The Reading Log is also a work of my thinking of other stories, and it faithfully documents my development stage of writing.
Finally, thank you for sparing time to read my blogs. I hope you would enjoy reading each one and give me your comments.
Luther Wu