• About Me

Hello! I’m Taylor. Welcome to my E-Portfolio! This site will show my progress through my writing in composition 2 this semester. I’ve been super involved in English since my freshman year through creative writing clubs, writing competitions, and even went as far as vice president of my high schools National English Honor Society. This website will take you through my journey of improvement through my college composition courses!

On the navigation bar above, you can choose which learning outcomes I’ve met and how I show their help in the development of my writing throughout projects this semester.

Cover Letter

For my first outcome, I feel I best met generating inquiry through my research proposal and CARS model introduction. In my research proposal, I introduce my site and explain that I need to “determine where writing and rhetoric has a place within this club, I need to research each portion that constructs a discourse community,” which led me to my main question: how is the idea of a discord community present in my life, and how can I show the prevalence of community within this site (Sievert, Proposal 1)? This provides a great example of creating questions related to the framework of discourse communities developed by John Swales and Ann Johns. Secondly, this outcome appears in my MA2 introduction. In my introduction, I again explained my site and how it connects, as well as added a key question to my research: how does insider communication lead to completed objectives within the community (Sievert, MA2 1)? This shows my development from my first major assignment to the second; my question became more specific and aligned with what my research is truly about. 

The second outcome I am going to tackle is