Rosen_Portfolio_IntroductionDraft

Dear Reader,
Throughout the Writing 1133 course, I think I have developed as a writer in a few different aspects. I think I have developed as a writer because our instructor forced us to become more independent and rely less on his opinion or critiques. In order to show my strides in writing, I chose a few essays that illustrate my improvements. The essays I chose to present are a text based essay and a qualitative essay from Writing 1133, and a rhetorical analysis of a video game from a previous writing class. I specifically chose a rhetorical analysis because I think it shows a much different aspect of my writing, and also illustrates improvement in my writing from earlier in the year.
The first paper I wrote this quarter was a text based essay. In order to effectively write this essay, I had to answer a underlying research question, and textual support those claims. When I was writing my text based paper, I chose my topic , Colorado’s crime, because I think it is something the everyone in the state of Colorado should be aware of. Also, I think that people that live in Colorado should be acquainted with different strategies to lower the crime rate. I think the readers will be my classmates and Professor Hill, but I would I hope that more Coloradoans should be familiar with the information I am presenting. When writing this essay, I chose a topic that I was interested in and that could be useful for others to know about. Initially, I started to research online and via library sources about crime in the United States and in Colorado. Once I got a good grip on that information, I started to write my essay. For me, it is easiest to write my introduction paragraph as a general outline for my essay. From there, I wrote my entire essay based on my introduction paragraph. Throughout the process of writing this piece, I had to make some changes due to the lack of information online about given topics. The peer review session we did in class was very helpful. My partner gave me a lot of good advice and critiques that made my essay significantly stronger. The class activities on style and editing was a good review, but I do not think I gained a lot of new information.