FINAL PORTFOLIO
Rhetorical Situation
For this final project you’ll create a portfolio that illustrates what you’ve learned. You’ll revise and
polish two or three of your projects (again!). Additionally, you may choose to include informal
writing (OPs, drafts, freewrites…). Introduce the portfolio with a reflective letter or essay that
addresses someone with an interest in your education (your mother, father, a past teacher…).
This introduction is the final and most important piece of writing you will produce this
semester: it must be crafted, organized, and revised extremely carefully. Provide context for
each element, including titles, purposes, how you’ve revised, and why you chose it. Include
specific details, such as brief quotations, and explain how they demonstrate that you’ve met
English learning outcomes across all categories. You could include how your understanding
of rhetorical elements evolved as you drafted, got feedback, and revised. The primary audience
for the entire portfolio is me, but you’ll also be writing for anyone evaluating our program. I also
encourage you to share your portfolio with the person you select as the audience for your
introduction!
Tasks
o Select two or three projects to revise again and any informal writing you’d like to
include.
o Review the assignment prompts, rubrics, and feedback from those assignments.
o Select 1 or 2 English 105 learning outcomes from each category (4-8 total) to focus on.
o Revise your projects and look for evidence to show you’ve met those 4-8 outcomes.
o Draft your reflective letter or essay (address a specific audience; refer to your
evidence).
o Workshop and revise the entire draft of the portfolio.
o Fill out the informed consent form and include that as the first page of your portfolio.
Length and Format
• Reflective Introduction: ~1000-1500 words (approximately 3-4 double-spaced pages).
• Put citations in a consistent, standard format following all course guidelines.
• Save the entire portfolio, including the consent form, as one PDF document:
YourLastName_YourFirstName_Portfolio_SemYear: García_Emilio_Portfolio_Fall2016.
Due Dates
Bring all of your projects and outcomes to class to review ________________
• In-class Polishing Workshop (Bring one paper copy!):
________________
• Final Portfolio (with Informed Consent Form first):
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Enhancing Your Understanding
Re-read this assignment. Annotate it. Underline important phrases. Write in anything I added
while going over it aloud in class. Put question marks anywhere you're confused. Then jot down,
in your own words, what you have to do, what ideas you have, and how you’ll get started.
Resources
• Everyone’s an Author Chapter 36, “Assembling a Portfolio”; 32, “Checking for Common
Mistakes”; 33,
“Designing What You Write”
• Can I Use I?: “How Do I Edit my Paper?”; “How Do I Know When I’m Done?”; and
“What If Writing Never Gets Any Easier?” Learning Outcomes Rhetorical Knowledge
Rhetorical knowledge is the ability to analyze contexts and audiences and to act on that
analysis in comprehending and creating texts. Writers develop rhetorical knowledge by
negotiating purpose, audience, context, and conventions as they compose a variety of texts for
different situations.
By the end of English 105, students should:
Learn and use rhetorical concepts through analyzing and composing a variety of texts
Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre
conventions function
Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts
in voice, tone, formality, design, medium, and/or structure
Understand and use a variety of technologies to address a range of audiences and rhetorical
situations
Processes
Writers use multiple strategies, or composing processes, to conceptualize, develop, and finalize
projects. Composing processes are seldom linear. Composing processes are flexible:
successful writers can adapt their processes to different contexts and occasions.
By the end of English 105, students should:
Develop a project through multiple drafts Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting,
reviewing, collaborating, revising, and editing
Use composing processes and tools to discover and reconsider ideas Experience the
collaborative and social aspects of writing processes
Learn to give and to act on productive feedback to works in progress
Adapt composing processes for a variety of technologies and modalities Reflect on how their
composing practices develop and influence their work
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing
Critical thinking is the ability to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate ideas, information,
situations, and texts. When writers think critically about the materials they use, they separate
assertion from evidence, evaluate sources and evidence, recognize and evaluate underlying
assumptions, read for connections and patterns, and compose appropriately qualified and
developed claims and generalizations.
By the end of English 105, students should: Use composing and reading for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in various
rhetorical contexts
Read a diverse range of texts, attending to relationships between assertion and evidence, to
patterns of organization, to the interplay between verbal and nonverbal elements, and to how
these features function for different audiences and situations
Locate and evaluate (for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, bias) primary and secondary research
materials
Use strategies—such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design—to compose
texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from sources
Knowledge of Conventions
Conventions are formal rules and informal guidelines that define genres and shape perceptions
of correctness. Conventions govern mechanics, usage, spelling, and citation; they also influence
content, style, organization, graphics, and document design. Conventions are not universal;
they vary by genre, discipline, and occasion. Successful writers understand, analyze, and
negotiate conventions for purpose, audience, and genre.
By the end of English 105, students should:
Develop knowledge of linguistic structures, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling,
through practice in composing and revising
Understand why genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary Gain
experience negotiating variations in genre conventions
Learn common formats and/or design features for different kinds of texts
Explore the concepts of intellectual property (such as fair use and copyright) that motivate
documentation conventions Practice applying citation conventions systematically in their own
work 1st paper is my review Smashing is Better My friends and I were curious about a restaurant called Smashburger because we always
wondered what the food was like, so went to eat there for lunch. Smashburger is open from
10a.m. to 10p.m. on weekdays and weekends, and we ended up going there at 1:00. So if anyone
ever ends up getting out of class late from a lab or another class, you should definitely go to
smashburger to go get something to eat, it really fills you up. This restaurant is right outside of
campus close to Dunkin Donuts and Jimmy Johns. The reason we came here is because first of
all, we had a taste for some burgers and fries, but we didn’t want to go to just any type of fast
food restaurant such as Mcdonalds or Burger King, we wanted something different. At first we
walked in and had to wait in line to order our food. After that we took a seat and we waited for
our order, and it took about five minutes until we actually got our food! I was very impressed
with the service here and you would be too, the employees were nice and the food was pretty
good. You would definitely like it here and you should definitely come here this place is mostly
very nice!
Smashburger is one of a kind when it comes to burger fast food restaurants. There were a
lot of things that were great about this restaurant, but also some things which I think they need to
change. First off, when we got in there, there was a menu while we waited in line for a bit. The
menu looked nice and neatly ordered, but the only thing that was wrong with the menu is that it
didn’t have the prices listed for the different orders. I was pretty upset about this because I didn’t
plan on going there and spending a lot of money. I looked at the menu and they had something that I hadn’t seen before which was create your own burger for an option, so that was pretty cool,
you would definitely like that part of the restaurant.
When I went up to order I got the classic burger and also got smash fries as well which
had olive oil and garlics sprinkled on top of it. They had a variety of different kind of fries that
you could get! Some of the fries that you could get were, sweet potato fries, of course the olive
oil fries that I had, garlic and rosemary fries, deep fried pickle fries, and veggie fries, which are
flash-fried carrot sticks and I would definitely suggest that you get the garlic and rosemary fries
first, those are so good. . After ordering we walked over and took a seat in the boothes that were
very comfortable!
I was happy with the seats as well because the seats were clean and the table was very
clean as well. Usually when I go to fast food restaurants, the tables and seats are overly dirty and
we have to go around the whole restaurant just to find a clean place to sit at, but at this restaurant
we didn’t have to worry about that at all, we sat at the very first table we saw available. When we
got our food , it was neatly placed in a basket and given to us. I loved how they made their
burgers! It was somewhat close to how five guys burgers were but I think these burgers are
actually better then five guys burgers. The fries were okay, the only thing that was wrong with
them is that I feel like they were a little too greasy.
While I was eating I got up and went to go to the bathroom. When I went to go to the
bathroom, the bathroom was facing where everybody could get up and go order their food, so I
walked over there and opened the door to the bathroom because I thought that the bathroom was public but it was private. I feel like they should have public bathrooms because it is a decent
sized restaurant and if someone really has to go to the bathroom as I did, they have to hold it and
bad things could happen when a little kid is at this stage. When I opened the door, there was
someone sitting on the toilet going to the bathroom and forgot the lock the door. There were a
few people that saw the person in the restroom sitting on the toilet and I know he had to be really
embarrassed as I would be. So once I saw that I closed the door as fast as I could and waited for
him to finish going to the bathroom. As I waited, he open the door and I walked in and made sure
that I locked the door! The bathroom stunk and wasn’t as clean as the rest of the restaurant was.
The toilet had hairs on them, around the toilet you could see pee stains, and also the sink was
brown and pretty dirty around it, as with the floor, which dirty looked like it had been swept up
in years. If you ever go here, make sure you go to the bathroom before you eat here because the
bathroom there is nasty.
After I came back from the restaurant I also got a shake as well. The shake that I had
gotten was a butterfinger shake. Even though the shake was a bit pricey it was still was great,
tasted somewhat like a DQ blizzard or a shake from Baskin Robbins. Another cool thing about
this restaurant is that you can order your food online and just come pick it up. I don’t think I have
ever heard of a burger fast food restaurant that has done that before until I came to this one.
Other fast food restaurants such as Mcdonalds, Burger King, and Five Guys don’t do that at all!
You would like this alot! Also, this restaurant had some music playing as we were eating as well. The music that
they were playing seemed to be top 100 because it was a pretty good playlist! It was even so
good me and my friends looked at other people and they were singing and dancing in their seats
as well. That actually started to get annoying because some of the kids kept running around and
singing very loudly when me and my friends were trying to eat which made us annoyed, because
we were trying to have a conversation with all of those kids screaming and yelling. I feel like
they should create a family section for this restaurant because that’s one thing that upset me as
well. One thing about this restaurant as well is that they also have beer too and if you're over 21
or have a fake I.D. you could get yourself some beer as well!
All in all, I would give this restaurant a 3 out of 5 rating. The reason I would give them a
3 out of 5 rating is because of the mess that was in the bathroom and how there wasn’t a public
bathroom. I feel like if you have a private restroom then it should at least be very clean because
of how small the bathroom was. Another thing that I also didn’t like is the menu and how they
didn’t have the prices listed on them. One thing with that that makes me upset is that when you
go up to order your food, you have no idea how much it is, so when I went up, I had to change
my order a little because I didn’t want to waste a lot of money. Another reason that I think this
restaurant deserves a 3 is because I loved their customer service, the food was great, and the
customer service was fantastic as well. As I said before, I have never been to a fast food burger
restaurant where they serve you your food and when you're finished you can just leave your food
there, I feel like other restaurants should take their thoughts on that because that was very thoughtful and professional. You would definitely like it here and you should definitely come
here this place is mostly very nice!
Processes: 2nd paper is my I-search I-Search
Should U.S drinking age be changed?
Part One: What I know and What I Want to Find Out
“I can’t legally drink alcohol in my country, but I can go join the military fight for my country
and potentially die for my country as well, that doesn’t make sense. I don’t really understand
why this country will not let me drink in this country but will let me take a bullet and potentially
die, drinking alcohol is not worse then that.” John Blake (Roommate/Neighbor)
The reason why I used this quote is because I wanted to start off my research paper on a true
reason on why the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen years old. Here in the United
States, you can not legally drink in the United states until you are twenty-one years old. In
different countries there are different opinions on the drinking age such as the United States has
there own opinion on it. My neighbor John Blake told me his opinion on the drinking age as he
was raised in Germany, was sixteen years old and adapting to this has influenced his choice on
drinking age in the United States but before getting to him, I’m going to talk a lot more about
this topic and why I chose it as well.
The reason behind this is that I moved to Germany, March 16, 2010 when I was only in 6th
Grade, but when I turned 16, my life changed really quickly and it’s an experience I won’t forget.
My parents had said to me that I could buy any bottle of liquor whenever, and whatever I
wanted, on the economy, but not on the military base because it wasn’t legal on base. Whenever I
started being able to drink and stuff it was great because it let me be able to go to parties and
clubs because at some clubs in Germany the age you had to be to get in was 16 and drinking
alcohol and not being able to drive I think was a great idea because there would be no drunk
driving accidents, you would have to call a taxi, parents, or have a DD. Whenever I grew up with my step-mom and Dad, they were pretty chill about the idea of me drinking, as long as my
grades were good; so I went and drank during high school whenever I wanted to go drink.
Drinking while growing up never affected me in my life because I was either playing football,
basketball, or running track, and in these sports you have to sign a contract saying that you won’t
drink alcohol while playing. Unlike other teenagers when they get their hands on alcohol, and
they start to go crazy with it. After I got my high school diploma and was finished with school, I
started to learn more about the brain and the cause of drinking, such as, how it can produce
dopamine, which if you drink too much your brain will rely on the chemical instead of naturally. Whenever I came back to the states and started college, it was different because I
watched teenagers again drink so much to the point to where they black out. Coming from
Germany wasn’t really anything special to me, I mean I did get to drink but still, the only thing
that was different for me was actually being able to drive finally, and that's when I started to
think about the laws in the drinking age, and why there were a lot of differences in various
countries about drinking and why the US made the drinking age twenty-one years of age not
eighteen. There are a lot of different reason why the United states have laws for not drinking but
it just never makes any sense to me. What is the reason behind them making the drinking age 21 years old,why couldn’t they of made it twenty years older or twenty-two years old. Also, how
does the rest of the population of ages sixteen through twenty one year olds feel about this law. I
have to see why the drinking age is 21 in the US and what effects alcohol has had on teenagers
throughout years. Part Two: My Search Process
I looked on the internet to see the history behind the drinking age for the US and that's how I
started my research. I searched and searched on different sites and I finally found a website that
thoroughly explained the history of other countries and the comparison between those countries
and the US.When I read about the history of drinking I first saw that they made the drinking age
in 1984 and that the drinking age is twenty which is the minimum of today still. Before they
made the drinking age, President Ronald Reagan made a law that if you didn’t make the drinking
age 21 then you would lose 10 percent of federal highway dollars, so that made every state listen
to this rule. This was a law but there were other ways people could drink such as having a
medical problem or having a religious excuse. I understand why there has been many changes in
history involving the drinking age but there could have been some other things at the same time
that could’ve been done. I lived in Germany before coming to the states so I drank at sixteen because the
drinking age was sixteen and you could go to clubs at that age as well, you just needed a parent
permission signature on a sheet that some clubs provided.When I came back to the states,
sometimes I would go pick up a bottle of vodka and try to check it out but then it comes to my
mind that I’m not even old enough to drink yet. Moving from Germany to the States wasn’t a
bad thing at all when it came to drinking but it wasn’t something I was used to yet so I would
have to adjust to it. There’s statistics that shows that there has been a huge problem in underage
drinking in the United States and hasn’t stopped occurring yet. I see a lot of drinking at NAU
which seems like a pretty big problem too because I always hear sirens at night which it’s either
someone drunk out of there mind of getting pulled out in a stretcher. “According to the 2014
National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 8.7 million Americans between ages 12-20
report current alcohol consumption; this represents nearly 20% of this age group for whom
alcohol consumption is illegal”.
I wanted to get more of a view on my topic so I interviewed my roommate and best friend
John Blake because he experienced drinking at a young age because he lived in Germany as
well. When I interviewed him, I interviewed him a couple times about drinking so I stopped
typing to hear out the thoughts he had clearer. Whenever I started the interview again, John simply just said that the law was stupid because it has been an issue, the issue has not been fixed,
and that it will always be an issue not unless they change that. John was into this topic a lot
because he was able to drink in Germany and not here so that made him pretty upset, so he ended
up telling me that if we were to choose twenty random people at NAU, seventeen of them would
say that they have drank alcohol illegally. He also said that he thinks that the laws in Germany
made a lot more sense and worked better with teens when it came to drinking and driving. I
completely agree with John because if the drinking age was 16 then I think there would be less of
a problem when it did come to drinking and driving because the driving age in Germany is 18.
Teenagers could then call a taxi home if they were to go to a party without being able to drive at
the age of 16 and being able to drink at 21 because kids are not going to follow that rule when it
comes to drinking because it’s so easy to get possession of it. In consideration to the ending of
John's interview, he says that, “ I believe that this topic is not a topic that the US is really worried
about because we have other major problems in the world that we have to take care of… I can’t
even remember one time that the news has said anything about underage drinking. The only
thing that I really see on the news now is just a lot of police brutality or something dealing with
Donald Trump.
I also called to Germany to interview my step-mother as well. She said something different than John which is to have the drinking age at 18 and to have the drinking age at 21. She told me on
the phone that its really hard to get a car because it’s really expensive and minors don’t really
have the money for it as to getting alcohol it is a lot easier. When I was on the phone with my
mother I could understand what she was saying and it sounded in the right state because their is a
ton of paperwork and information that you have to fill out before even thinking about getting a
car unlike getting alcohol, which is something small and a minor could even steal that. This
would also be a change in drinking and driving as well but not a major change.
There is only one more thing that comes to my mind and that is how alcohol affects the teen
human brain. John had also said that he didn’t think that alcohol would have a big issue when it
came to the brain not unless you were an alcoholic and drank a ton, then there would be an issue.
When I searched on the web I could easily see a lot of different websites that states how alcohol
effects the brain in different ways. According to Alcohol Think Again “Studies of adolescents
show that heavy and extended alcohol use is associated with a 10% reduction in the size of the
hippocampus”. The hippocampus is a brain structure vital to learning and memory, which can
appear vulnerable to damage from chronic to heavy alcohol consumption. If you drink a ton of
alcohol, it can reduce total hippocampus volume, which reflects on a loss of hippocampal tissue
substance. As i read more in Reading more into how it affects the teenage brain it says that alcohol can affect the prefrontal lobe (planning, judgement, decision making, impulse control
and language is what this is used for). At the end of the day, there's a lot of reason why or why
not teenagers should or should not drink alcohol. Should teenagers be able to drink with their
parents permission? After reviewing all these things alcohol has a ton of factors that are involved
when it comes is it good for you or is it bad; should parents let their teenagers drink or not. Part three: How this Search Matters?
This I-Search matters to me because it has a lot to do with teenagers here in Flagstaff, it’s not just
a personal paper, but it’s something to be shared. Getting to the age of 16 in Germany was the
best thing because I got to drink alcohol of course and got to but it whenever I felt like it; then
moving here not being able to buy it anymore because I am too young. Alcohol is a big part of
college because college students love alcohol and they drink it all the time, especially whenever
they go out to parties or just a little kick back.
Besides on wanting to drink alcohol, the reason it also matters to me is because of how it affects
the brain and body. People usually can ruin their life by drinking which happens to alot of
people, they get really addicted to it and can’t stop, then they have to go through a whole rehab
process which takes a while. I paused and thought hard a bit about the effectiveness of changing the drinking age and driving age. I thought that the best thing to do would be to change the
drinking age to sixteen and change the driving age to nineteen. The reason being is so...

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