Pieces for the Portfolio

For the Revision Assignment, I plan on using my final paper for my Theories of Writing course. It is a paper using five different genres of writing to develop a theory of writing; it is quite abstract, literary, and academic, so I am thinking of turning it into an editorial for a magazine. Perhaps it would function as both a literature review and an op-ed.

For the Applied Writing course, I will be including a hybrid piece of prose and poetry from an Intermediate Fiction Workshop. It is a piece that showcases my literary versatility and will give readers a good idea about what my literary prose can look like. It is also a piece that is being adapted into a play at DU, so I can include links to the performance after it is filmed later this quarter.

The piece from the Theory, History, Research writing course I will be choosing is my final project, a documentary poem that explores Denver as a city. I consider living in Denver to be a huge contributor of my poetics, so this piece will maintain the literary atmosphere while also showing my engagement with documentary poetics and rhetorics.

The final project for my Theories of Writing course will be the piece I choose, which will be the one that the revision piece will be based off of. It is my own theory of writing utilizing different genres of writing; I think it will demonstrate my versatility of genre and my ability to develop an academic theory.

From my English Major courses, I will first choose a paper from a Sexuality and Textuality course that integrates an Audre Lorde theory with Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, which will show my ability to weave together sociological theory with contemporary literature to elucidate my own claims. I will also choose an essay from a Modern Drama course about the concept of destruction within three literary dramas, which will show that I can engage with many different types of literature. This essay is also more informal, which provides a more raw depiction of my critical thinking. Lastly, I will choose the final paper in my Senior Seminar about ghostwriting and contemporary poetry, which is written in Chicago Style Format and will show my range of styles that I can successfully write in within the realm of literary research.

I also plan on having pages dedicated to my creative prose and poetry, which have been done during my time in college. I don’t want to attribute them to a course, however, since they are already such an important part of my identity as a writer.