portfolio for Writing Ⅳ

Student ID: 08126

Portfolio for Writing IV, Section 1A
(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. OVERVIEW

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

1.0. ESSAYS

(See: Note 3, below.)


Please complete this table with data gathered from essays on your blog. See the Key (below) for definitions of the symbols in row one, and complete columns four through nine with numerical values (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links to blog posts	Dates yyyy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
2-01a (2009.10.07)	My favorite place	2009.10.19	5	372	0	0	0	0
2-01b (2009.10.21)	My favorite place (revision)	2009.10.21	6	361	2	0	0	0
(2-01c)
2-02a (2009.11.04)	Mickey Mouse	2009.10.28	5	420	8	3	1	0
2-02b (2009.11.18)	Mickey Mouse	2009.11.17	5	515	0	3	0	0
(2-02c)
2-03a (2009.12.02)	My Lerning Language History	2009.12.01	5	518	9	0	0	0
2-03b (2009.12.18/22)	Lerning Language is my life	2009.12.16	9	672	0	0	0	0
(2-03c)
Totals	---	---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics

M: number of other media included in post

1.2. Most Improved Essay

(See: Note 4, below.)


Selection and Assessment: Which of the three essays that you've written and revised this semester shows the most improvement? What did you do to improve it? Remember that complete answers are better than short answers, focus on your writing (accuracy, appropriacy, content and organization, rather than graphics or other media), and explain at least two major improvements.

• I think essay 2-03 is the most improvement of the three essays There are two reason. One is that I changed the title. So I think that essay 2-03b became catchy. The other reason that I divided paragraph in detail, so I think that essay 2-03b is easier than before.
  

2.0. COMMENTS

Showcase	Short titles of posts with links	Dates of comments yyyy.mm.dd	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*	Social Media and Social Networking Explained	2009.10.20	26	I wrote my opinion.
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*	essay 2-03a	2009.12.10	24	I wrote my opinion and question.
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*	My Learning Language History	2009.12.09	27	Hikari wrote her opinion and question.
2.4. Most comments on:	Short titles of posts with link	Dates of posts yyyy.mm.dd	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*	My Learning Language History	2009.12.01	155	Most people ask some question, so I write revision easily.
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2009.12.09	---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	152	I answered their questions.
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*	Mickey Mouse	2009.10.28	192	They write their opinion and some questions.
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2009.11.05	---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	96	I answered their questions.µ

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain briefly what makes comments good.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example, in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where, or why not? Please explain.

• ... My blog displays recent comments in footer.
  

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

• .... About receiving comments, I could know that I had readers for my blog.
• .... Through giving comments, I had chance to read other classmates' blogs.
  

3.0. BOOK REVIEWS

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates: yyyy.mm.dd	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	2007.05.16	39	1
BR 2-01	The Pizza That We Made	2009.08.08	122	0
BR 2-02	The Teeny-Tiny Woman	2009.08.26	123	0
BR 2-03	The Gingerbread Boy	2009.10.01	122	0
BR 2-04	FLUFFY GOES TO SCHOOL	2009.10.13	153	0
BR 2-05	FLUFFY'S VALENTINE'S DAY	2009.11.14	195	0
BR 2-06	FLUFFY GOES APPLE PICKING	2009.11.16	215	0
BR 2-07	SMALL PIG	2009.11.24	182	0
BR 2-08	THE BOOKSTORE VALENTINE	2009.11.26	260	0
BR 2-09	The Little Mermaid	2010.01.08	202	0
BR 2-10	The Pied Piper of Hermelin	2010.01.12	185	0
BR 2-11	Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby	2010.01.15	184	0
BR 2-12	Icarus	2010.01.15	182	0
BR 2-13	The Sun and the Wind	2010.01.15	144	0
BR 2-14	The Ant and the Grasshopper	2010.01.15	138	0
BR 2-15
BR 2-16
BR 2-17
BR 2-18
---	---	Totals:

Note: Please calculate and list book review Totals for words and comments without including those from the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• My best book review is "The Sun and the Wind" because I think that Icould summary this book well.
  

4.0. BLOG LAYOUT, LABELING, LINKING, and MEDIA

Showcase	Yes	No
4.1. Does your blog display an archive?	√
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?	√
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?		√
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?		√
4.2. Does your blog display a cloud or list of labels in the sidebar?	√
4.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)	√
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")	√
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)	√
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)	√
"movies" (plural) AND "websites" (plural)	√
"brainstorms" (or "brainstorming"), "essay prep.," AND "free-writing" (or "free-writes")	√
4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?	√
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? 45 other labels attached to three or more posts	---	---
Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below. baseball (2) biography (2) birthday (2) blogs (33) blood type (1) Books (28) brainstorms (1) characters (2) drafts (3) essay prep. (6) Essays (17) favorites (5) festival (1) Free writing (3) Funeral of New Zealand (2) Harry Potter (1) International Cocktail Party (2) jobs (1) languages (5) links (2) media (1) morning and evening habits (1) movies (6) my cousin (1) my friends (3) New Zealand (1) News Quiz (2) opinion (3) outlines (2) portfolios (1) quickposts (1) Reading (2) report (2) Reviews (31) revisions (7) sea (1) signs (1) Speaking (14) Starbucks Coffee (1) suggestions (1) summer vacation (4) test (1) TOEIC (1) university life (2) websites (3)	---	---
4.3. Links and media	---	---
4.3.1. Do your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics?	√
Does your blog profile include a photo or graphic representation?	√
How many of your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics? 25 posts including photos or other graphics	---	---
4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?	√
How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links? 22 posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)	---	---
4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?		√
How many of your blog posts this semester include other media? 0 posts including other media	---	---
What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list the kinds here: ... ... ...	---	---
What media content that you originally produced, if any, do your blog posts for this semester contain? Please list and explain each item briefly, and add short links and dates (yyyy.mm.dd) for reference. ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date)	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation and readability of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, display, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes that you have made on your blog this semester.

1. ... I tried easy to see layout.
2. ... I changed display color and letter color.
3. ... I attached a lot of photo to read by reader.

5.0. ADDITIONAL REFLECTIONS ON YOUR BLOG AND YOUR WRITING FOR IT

Please feel free to include reflections on both class work and homework, as well as on the content of this portfolio (proto-portfolios, showcases, selections, and reflections).

• ... It was difficult for me to understand class work, so I asked my friends and assistants.
• ... I took a lot time for homework, because Writing class' homework always use a computer.
• ... I think this proto-portfolios was nice, but I felt that it is little longer.
  

6.0. ADVICE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR YOURSELF, YOUR PEERS, AND YOUR SUCCESSORS

• ... To myself: I had to write more regularly! I think I should keep blogging after finished Writing class!
• ... To my successor: I suggest you to write a lot of thing you did. Please find interesting things in your life.
• ... To my successor: I think that you should include a lot of pictures, links and medias.
  

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Notes:

1. This portfolio template derives from Writing Studio Blog templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc (2007-08), Writing III, §§1a & 1c, Writing IV: Portfolio, §§1a & 1c (2008-09), and the July 7, 2009, Portfolio for Writing III.
2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios (PPFs) in the footer of your blog, which you should already have revised to display your 2nd (fall) semester PPF first.
3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derived from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).
   
4. The essay selection and explanation item (§1.2, above) differs from that in the July 7, 2009, Portfolio for Writing III. Please read the new item carefully before making a selection.

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