reflection rough draft for portfolio

intro
discussion of projects
-rhetorical analysis
-research project
-presentation
-visual argument
conclusion

Composition is a course designed to help students with the writing done in their respective majors. This course taught many different techniques from MLA and APA citation styles, to the main components of rhetoric. Different aspects of developing an argument was discussed and...

The first project was a practice and discovery of the citation style in our major. For this project we had to interview a professor in our major about the citation style used in our major. After the interview, we wrote an annotated bibliography using the citation style described by the professor. Overall, this project was very interesting. I had never interview a professor before and I thought that it was a fun and interesting experience. In the end, I learned a lot about the writings done within Chemical Engineering and how the style of the citation is dictated by the journal it will be published in. Because there was no set style for citation it was difficult for me to write the annotated bibliography that went along with the interview. Luckily I got some pieces of writing that a professor wrote and the citations were shown. I used those citation as an example to base my citation on.

The next project was a change in pace from the first which was more technical. Our second project was a rhetorical analysis in which we had to choose and article and analyze the effectiveness of the authors argument. For this project, I found an article from the New York Times about alternative medicine.