Julian Dane Ali

Writing 1101
E-Portfolio Essay
August 5, 2014
To those who are fortunate enough to read my final portfolio essay I would like to invite
you to dive deep into the knowledge of literacy I has consumed so far into the time I have spent
at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte over my first summer semester at college. I
have formally out together my accolades, assignments, edits , and anything else that need be
out into my e-Portfolio onto my Weebly webpage. I have put together my accumulated
improvement and thrown them into a trophy case that will show off all my work and all my
accolades I have made over the span of a six week semester. I plan on showing off all of my
achievements big and small. My Weebly webpage will be complete with an easily navigational
and educational vibe to it. My Weebly webpage will focus on exhibiting the gradual change
that I made with my work throughout the semester during the summer. I want to have a focal
point with my weebly webpage to have a perfect chronological organization from my time in
UTOPs 1101 Writing Class and the work I have done. Through my paper I will be able insert my
edits and my final drafts. And you will be able to access them through the tabs and links set up
with in easily navigational webpage I have utilized through weebly.
In many, if not all of you webpages in Weebly I was able to utilize the modes of
communication that I learn in Ms. Ingrams class. I learn in Writing 1101 that the modes of
communication can be used to capture on audiences attention through out words
communication or even at a subliminal message. I learned that in everyday life we are exposed
to the modes of communication. Whether that be walking down the street or just sitting in your
house. This is even more evident and we are most exposed to the modes of communication
through advertisements. When we the audience are being expose to an advertisement we are
being shown small messages that affect the decision we make in spending our money on the
product being presented to us. The modes of communication are a very strong weapon when
used correctly. I utilized almost all of the modes of communication. Linguistic mode would refer
to a quote with in the organization to the Weebly webpage that grasp the audiences attention.
I showed examples of the Linguistic mode of communication with the quote in bold that appear
on my Weebly webpage reflect on a writer. Some of the quotes that appear with in the Weebly
webpage are quote that have influenced me as a writer and helped push me to improve my
literacy. Visual mode of communication is the most simplified of the five modes of
communicate. Simply referring to the color and layout surrounding the thing being defined in
front of you. In my webpage the visual mode of communication is exposed to the audience the
very second they open the webpage. The audience sees the layout presented to them and is
exposed to the mood of the webpage and begins to get a certain vibe. Its a lot harder to
provide an aural mode of communication. Due to the complexity of inserting music or a sort of
noise into a webpage. This mode of communication can be recognized in advertisements on TV
with a sort of background noise. But I was not able to apply this mode of communication to my
webpage. The gestural mode of communication is more of an impracticality and the idea of
using it in the webpage. Unless I put it into a video or a picture. The gestural mode of
communication refers to the facial expressions or body language that a person reflex. The
Spatial mode of communication refers to the organization of a certain thing. And this is much
easily recognized in my webpage due to how I put it together.
With my first day of class beginning I was very nervous to be placed in my first college
course. In overcoming anxiety Ms. Ingram gave us our first assignment which was to post on
our blog site. The assignment felt complicated just by the sound. I wasnt sure what to be
expected of, I thought that the assignment would be long, hard and far more complicated than
it actually was. Our first decided blog post was very comforting. I was simply asked to ask
questions that I wanted to be answered. As well as how I was feeling after my first day of class. I
was happy to be completely first assignment. So you could say that the first assignment given to
me help comfort me to my new college life. Our second assignment was given to us as a reader
response letter on That Isnt What We Did In High School by Donald A. McAndrew. Again I
had no idea what to expect from the exact same as before. I believed the assignment would be
overcomplicated and impossible. I began reading the narrative and became very hooked. The
topic and idea of the contrast between high school and college transition was fascinating. But I
thought it to be very simple to reflect on the reading in one page. Bring me more to the
realization that overstressing would only bar me from reality. The most complicated assignment
to me this semester would be the literacy narrative we were assigned to complete. The reason
being because of how broad the assignment was. I was told to explain how my literacy
improved throughout my high school career. But I first had to figure out with it definition of
literacy truly was. Because at the time being I thought that literacy dealt with my own ability to
write. But it also dives into writing and understanding literature. I thought that my experiences
throughout high school had helped me be able to understand people by the way they present
themselves. I thought reading people was something that defined my improvement in literacy.
The assignment was hard because even through this I felt that my literacy has not reached its
peak. In reality I believe that my literacy had not change at all. I believe that I had not even
focused on improving my literacy throughout my high school experience. In completing
assignment that was my biggest fear. I had not thought that my work completed in grade
school had helped my understanding for literature. In my second draft of the assignment I
focused on one experience that happened in high school, and that would be my time spent on
the basketball team. I feel as if that time spent had changed me the most throughout high
school. I believe my coaches and my teammates have made me a better person than any
teacher, principal, and or assignment. My midterm compacted my thoughts of the entire
semester. My midterm assignment helped me bring together my final thoughts. And look for
answers to my questions. Many things became a lot more clear about what my final goals were
for the course. Which were to improve as a writer. Being that my greatest struggles in writing
are my minor mistakes, in ability or laziness to identify them and fix them.
My writing is grown very well throughout my second semester summer session at UNC
Charlotte. I have been able to identify my problems and provide solutions for them. I no longer
struggle as much as I have. I proofread my work and I have my peers do so as well. I analyze my
mistakes and I change them before my professor has to. I have become more self disciplined in
my writing routine in my writing process. My sentence structure and the structure of my essays
have become better fortified. My writing no longer is choppy and has a better flow. My
evidence for this is in my many drafts for my literacy narrative. I hope to improve more
throughout college and become a better writer. I want to be able to fix the faults in my essays
before anyone else has to. In the beginning of this course I was not able to show any hope for
improving my writing skills. throughout the course Ive taken the time the necessary steps to
help myself.
The key concepts of the course were something I am glad that I was about to get a
concept on and improve in the semester. Primarily the work I have done to improve my work
process. I feel as if that was my biggest struggle throughout my writing career. I have taken out
more time to spend working on the drafts I have put together and peer edit others. I have
picked up on a lot of skill.
I believe I deserve an A of course. In my mind I think that if anyone work to their best
ability than that person deserves a good grade.