Dear Reader:

This portfolio includes all of the assignments that were given to Ayomide Ogundele through the duration of the fall 2019 Fiqws 10105 class. Inside this portfolio, you can expect to find a wide array of written works by Ayomide Ogundele. This includes poems, a narrative, summary, and response, research paper, a mini-interview, a run-on paragraph, and two abstracts.

Throughout the semester, we were able to “explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations”(Stoler) through the use of poems. The poems were broken down and analyzed thoroughly to help students understand the different varieties of writing. The poems were read aloud, and each sentence was dissected in order to understand what the poems entailed properly. Weekly poem assignments were assigned over the course of the semester. After students were able to understand and analyze a poem that was read in class, we were then assigned to write our own poems relating to the topic of the one that was read in class.

We were also able to “develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing” and “Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes”(Stoler) with the help of in-class workshops. The in-class workshop consisted of classmates editing and reviewing class assignments that were due for a grade. The classmates were to leave constructive criticism. This was done before the submission of any assignment to Blackboard.

The use of Blackboard helped students “understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences”(Stoler), through Blackboard, we were able to submit assignments and get feedback of the works that we had submitted. We also used google docs and Microsoft word document to type up assignments. In order to “locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias”(Stoler) we used the CUNY one search as our main resource and these articles and journals that were found were then used in writing our research paper.

The summary & response paper and the research paper were used to “Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation” and “Practice systematic application of citation conventions”(Stoler). The research paper was a way to work on our citations because we needed to cite our sources well. We also had a lecture in class that showed us how to cite sources and in-text citations.

Overall I was able to achieve all the points of learning for this course.

Below are some of the drafts and editing that were used in workshops and self-editing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0MFwLbV1Qj1QjNnVkEweDE2dkFHamMtTWxRblh6XzFvLWRZ/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0MFwLbV1Qj1d0FxZkQ4ZkdsSE1VTE1aQ3F3c1JZV2pNTy1z/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0MFwLbV1Qj1MkFZNTVhV201MWJSNjJQUVlkb3BnVEhueUo4/view?usp=sharing