Reflective Statement Erin Chrystel Wright

Reflective Statement 1
Reflective Statement
e-Portfolio
Erin Chrystel M. Wright
Florida State University
ENC 2135 Research, Genre, and Context
Professor Crombet
December 04, 2020

When I found out that one of my required classes was going to be ENC 2135, I honestly
rolled my eyes. Another English class, I thought to myself. I’ve taken so many throughout high
school already, and I thought that taking another one at this point was meaningless. I even
already took ENC 1102 as a dual enrollment class in high school, yet it wasn’t acceptable
enough for my major in Neuroscience. I sighed when I looked at my schedule and stared at the
course code. I wondered about what else I could learn when it comes to writing essays and
analyzing texts. However, when the first day of class came, I saw proof of how mistaken I was.
The class was a great experience, and I was not wasting my time re-learning old concepts again.
One of the major things that I learned throughout this course was looking through
databases and going through various scholarly articles. I have seen databases before, but I’ve
never bothered to use them because they seemed so complicated and I thought Google was all I
needed anyway. Boy, I was wrong. After we were taught how to search for articles using
keywords and how to filter your results with several criteria, I learned that databases are like
oceans of knowledge being updated with new research and studies every day. There was so much
information I could learn, and I could trust that they were credible because by filtering it to make
sure they were peer-reviewed, I knew that the articles were checked and double-checked by
experts in the field. Now, they aren’t easy to read. There could be a lot of complicated jargon if
you’re not well-versed in the field. However, we were taught how to dissect the articles into
different parts beforehand and what to do if there were concepts that we didn’t quite understand.
With the pathway that I’m going down for my career goals, I certainly found that learning this
wasn’t just interesting, but it was going to be very useful.
Now for this e-Portfolio, I was given a chance to revise either Project 1 or Project 2, and I
chose to work on Project 1. I got a 98% as my grade for it, but every improvement still counts.
My project was an investigative essay on the future of psychology based on current
developments within the field. I also included how attitudes and stigmas towards mental health
have changed over time and how this might also affect psychology positively. However,
including both developments and stigmas as part of the essay made the whole project feel
unfocused and disorganized. Therefore, to revise it, I thought I would make the project focus on
just one factor and how that could affect the future of psychology. I started with exploring the
stigmas towards only the field of psychology in the past, then I went to talk about present
developments and technologies within the field, and then I concluded with future predictions
through the eyes of experts in psychology.
In this website, I included two assignments that I felt very proud of in the Artifacts tab.
The first one is my Instagram Post from Project 3 where we had to create three different genres
that all had the same purpose of persuading specific audiences about our stance on a certain issue
in our field. I picked the issue of victim-blaming, and I was hoping to persuade young adult
students to stop or prevent attitudes that contributed to the phenomena. I let my creativity shine
through this assignment with the aesthetics that I thought would best capture my audience. I felt
satisfied with the visuals that I tried my best to achieve with each post. Through this project, I
learned about how many different approaches a creator can make on composition when trying to
persuade different audiences through various mediums. The second artifact is my rhetorical
analysis of two articles talking about the purposes of dreams. I examined a Ted-ED YouTube
video and an online article by Medical News Today. The reason why I’m proud of this
assignment is that I was satisfied with the outline and structure of my essay. For both artifacts, I
first analyzed their conventions and how effective the author’s usage of them was. Then, I talked
about which of the three rhetorical appeals were used to persuade the audience. Finally, I
compared both artifacts and decided which one was a more effective artifact. It was a neat and
organized essay, and I do believe that I got my point straight across.

Reflective Statement Erin Chrystel Wright

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Reflective Statement Erin Chrystel Wright

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Reflective Statement Erin Chrystel Wright

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Reflective Statement 1

Erin Chrystel M. Wright

Florida State University

ENC 2135 Research, Genre, and Context

December 04, 2020

wasn’t just interesting, but it was going to be very useful.

My project was an investigative essay on the future of psychology based on current

through the eyes of experts in psychology.

organized essay, and I do believe that I got my point straight across.

You might also like