Portfolios for Writting IV, Setion 1A

Student ID: 08102

Portfolio for Writing IV, Section 1A

0.0. OVERVIEW

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

1.0. ESSAYS

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links to blog posts	Dates yyyy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
2-01a (2009.10.07)	Partial	2009.10.07	6	308	9	0	0	0
2-01b (2009.10.21)	Places I like	2009.10.21	6	364	0	0	0	0
2-02b (2009.11.18)	Most cute bears	2009.11.11	7	406	0	3	０	0
2-03a (2009.12.02)	Most important thing	2009.11.28	7	701	15	0	0	0
2-03b (2009.12.18/22)	Most important things	2009.12.16	9	929	1	0	0	0
Totals	---	---	40	3085	32	6	1	0

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics

M: number of other media included in post

1.2. Most Improved Essay

Selection and Assessment: Which of the three essays that you've written and revised this semester shows the most improvement? What did you do to improve it? Remember that complete answers are better than short answers, focus on your writing (accuracy, appropriacy, content and organization, rather than graphics or other media), and explain at least two major improvements.

[Most important things]

• This essay is the most improvement than any other essays. For example this essay's structure is better than before essay. Then this essay has a few point of view, "I " and "we". So, I think that this essay is easy to read.
  
• This essay divide each gradually level. So, I felt current of time.
• I found that I didn't distinguish the words whether singular or plural clearly. So I improved those words.
  

2.0. COMMENTS

Showcase	Short titles of posts with links	Dates of comments yyyy.mm.dd	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*	Social Media and Social Networking Explained	2009.10.14	17	Impression
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*	Language Learning stories	2009.12.09	39	Question Opinion
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*	Most important thing	2009.12.09	34	improvement
2.4. Most comments on:	Short titles of posts with link	Dates of posts yyyy.mm.dd	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*	Most important thing	2009.11.28	325	improvements, good points
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2009.12.16	---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	929	I post on the blog
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*	Partial	2009.10.14	145	questions
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---	2009.10.14	---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	60	on the comment

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain briefly what makes comments good.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example, in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where, or why not? Please explain.

• ... I located recent comments in a footer, because my blog's design can not locate in a sidebar, header. So, I located it in a footer.
  

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

• Through get some comments, I can get some opinion from reader. It is very benefit for me to study English, because reader tell me about some my mistakes.
  
• Through get some comments, I can know about other opinion which i don't have. Then I think that my view spread.
  

3.0. BOOK REVIEWS

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates: yyyy.mm.dd	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	2007.05.16	39	1
BR 2-01	The Old Woman Who Named Things	2009.08.14	236	0
BR 2-02	The Hare and the Tortoise	2009.08.17	230	0
BR 2-03	Ben and the Ghost	2009.08.20	189	0
BR 2-04	Little Witch Goes to School	2009.08.22	194	0
BR 2-05	Pinocchio	2009.09.21	120	0
BR 2-06	Stories of Dolls	2009.10.07	46	0
BR 2-07	Stories of Santa	2009.10.14	201	0
BR 2-08	Save Floppy	2009.10.26	102	0
BR 2-09	Houses Then and Now	2009.10.30	148	1
BR 2-10	Taxtation	2009.11.04	103	0
BR 2-11	Three Billy-Goats	2009.11.10	133	0
BR 2-12	BUIRDING THE PYRAMIDS	2009.11.17	195	0
BR 2-13	MY BUSHFIRE DIARY	2009.11.24	198	0
BR 2-14	GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA	2010.01.11	112	0
BR 2-15	Food from the World	2010.01.11	87	0
BR 2-16
BR 2-17
BR 2-18
---	---	Totals:	2294	1

Note: Please calculate and list book review Totals for words and comments without including those from the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

Houses Then and Now

• I think that this book review is best than any other book reviews, because it written about my opinion.
• A lot of information which I got by this book are written in this book review.
  

4.0. BLOG LAYOUT, LABELING, LINKING, and MEDIA

Showcase	Yes	No
4.1. Does your blog display an archive?	√
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?	√
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?	√
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?		√
4.2. Does your blog display a cloud or list of labels in the sidebar?		√
4.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)	√
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")	√
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)	√
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)	√
"movies" (plural) AND "websites" (plural)	√
"brainstorms" (or "brainstorming"), "essay prep.," AND "free-writing" (or "free-writes")	√
4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?	√
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? 30 other labels attached to three or more posts	---	---
Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below. 　　　 America (8) Books (27) diary (25) drafts (3) essay prep. (3) essays (14) favorites (5) graphic (26) links (4) media (3) quickposts (11) reviews (25) revisions (5) speaking (5) trip (8) websites (3)	---	---
4.3. Links and media	---	---
4.3.1. Do your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics?	√
Does your blog profile include a photo or graphic representation?	√
How many of your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics? 27 posts including photos or other graphics	---	---
4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?	√
How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links? 2 posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)	---	---
4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?		√
How many of your blog posts this semester include other media? 　　　　　　 0 posts including other media	---	---
What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list the kinds here: ... ...	---	---
What media content that you originally produced, if any, do your blog posts for this semester contain? Please list and explain each item briefly, and add short links and dates (yyyy.mm.dd) for reference. ... ...	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation and readability of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, display, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes that you have made on your blog this semester.

1. Display. I listed a lot of photos to read by people.
2. Formatting. I care that use many expression.
3. Layout. I tried easy to see layout.

5.0. ADDITIONAL REFLECTIONS ON YOUR BLOG AND YOUR WRITING FOR IT

Please feel free to include reflections on both class work and homework, as well as on the content of this portfolio (proto-portfolios, showcases, selections, and reflections).

• It was little difficult for me to do class work, so I often asked my friends what should I do on the time.
• I think that homework was little many for me. Writing class' homework use computer, so I need a lot of time. So, I felt so that.
• I think that this portfolio is very nice, because I can look over my document.
  

6.0. ADVICE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR YOURSELF, YOUR PEERS, AND YOUR SUCCESSORS

• To include some graphics is one of important thing.
• I think that people have to write this blog regularly, otherwise people will worry.
• I think that you should write a lot of things you did.
  

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Notes:

1. This portfolio template derives from Writing Studio Blog templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc (2007-08), Writing III, §§1a & 1c, Writing IV: Portfolio, §§1a & 1c (2008-09), and the July 7, 2009, Portfolio for Writing III.
2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios (PPFs) in the footer of your blog, which you should already have revised to display your 2nd (fall) semester PPF first.
3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derived from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).
   
4. The essay selection and explanation item (§1.2, above) differs from that in the July 7, 2009, Portfolio for Writing III. Please read the new item carefully before making a selection.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

“★A HAPPY NEW YEAR★”
How do you spend New Year’s days??
I went to my ground parent’s home greeting of New Year. My family and my cousin’s family gather my ground parent’s home every year. At there, we ate Osechi ryouri and Zouni (rice cake boiled with vegetables). I like Zouni very much. I like Osechi too.

This picture’s dish is Osechi. Before, my mother, aunt, and ground mother made Osechi in my ground parent’s home. A lot of dishes were handmade. However, we ordered these near years. Because, to make Osechi is little hard for them, so they ordered it.

Osechi has a lot of hope each dish. For example, Kazunoko (herring roe) is descendant prosperity. Konbu (kelp) is gratified. Ebi (shrimp) is longevity. The other dish has each wish. If you want to know about them, please look at this.

In this year, I want to challenge a lot of things. I want to get some qualifications so I will do my best.

Have a nice year!!! (173 words)

Essays 2-03 b : Most important things

To learn language is very important things for our life. If we can not understand languages in the same countries, we can not contact each other. Then we cannot do anything. For example, we cannot speak, understand each other’s hart, or communication between other persons and I. It is not only in the same countries, but also overseas. So we learn languages.

I have learning a few languages since I was born. I receive a lot of language’s classes until now. For example, I received Japanese, English and German. I’m learning them still. Then I deepen that knowledge now. In the future, I want to talk a lot of people through English. I will introduce about their content from now on.

First of all, I want to talk a lot of people in the all over the world. English is a common language all over the world. So I want to speak English very well. I want to get a lot of skills in writing, speaking, reading, and listening. So, I want to start to remember words, read newspapers, and watch TVs. I think these are easy ways to learn English. Then I want to get those skills through them. In the future, I want to be a ground staff at air port, cabin attendant or English teacher. I have learned English over ten years, so I want to work use English. Therefore I have a few plans to study English. One of them is to go abroad. We can study English not only study abroad but also trip. I want to go America one more time. I went to there last summer vacation with my friends, and we experienced a lot of things. At there we had some troubles because we couldn’t get through our pronunciation. I felt that it is one of important thing for me to understand and speak English. I started to learn language deliberately at six years of age in the elementary school’s class.

However, it is not first time for us to learn languages, because we can speak mother tongue at the age. Actually, we learn languages before we are born. Mothers talk to them babies to them stomachs. I think that the baby listen that the voice inside. Then the young children hear the conversation of them around adults. When children go to pre-school, they remember a lot of words. It is not only good words but also bad words, such as fool and shit.

At elementary school, I studied Japanese and English. In Japanese, I learned, the Japanese cursive syllabary, block letters in Japanese syllabary and Chinese character. First we learned the Japanese cursive syllabary, and second block letters in Japanese syllabary. After that we learned Chinese character accordingly of age. Flower is the first Chinese character, which I remembered. It is about five years old. My brother taught me the Chinese character. It was difficult for me to remember the Chinese character. When we remember the Chinese character, we have to remember order writing. To keep order writing is most important things to write beautiful Chinese character. Then I learned English from an Assistant Language Teacher. We learn English through some games, and sings. It was very interesting for me to learn English. Other things I commute English conversation class after school once a week. In the class, I learned a lot of words. For example, I learned some words, month, and week etcetera.

When I was a secondary school, I started studying English in earnest. However grammar was the main thing I studied. We learned these to use textbooks. Sometimes, we learn English through some games. I learned these in a high school too. As a freshman, I started to learn English deepen, not only grammar, but also English history.

I learned a second foreign language, German. The reason I choose it was, I heard that German resemble English and Japanese. Actually, German resembles Japanese grammar and English words. But, German is foreign languages for me. However it is interesting for me to study German. If I have chance to learn German again, I want to learn once more time. I have learned Japanese, English and German. . Then if I have a chance and time, I want to learn Korean. Korea is near Japan, so I felt Korea is the nearest country in the all over the world. If I know Korean, I can go there any time. So I want to learn Korean except Japanese, English and German.


I’m learning English profound knowledge now. For example, I learn history of the English language, U.S. literature, writing, speaking, and reading skills etcetera. Until I was a high school, I had never learned exact pronunciation. However, at the university, we can learn it by talk native speakers. We can learn that not only talk, but also hear. Then I discovered a lot of things. For example, I found national expression by everyday conversation. I felt that it is important for us to learn practical English. I can do it now

Thus, I have learned three languages through life and classes. I like Japanese best. But, English is most used by a lot of people all over the word. I felt that it is not easy for us to learn languages, so I think that it is important for us to learn languages step by step. Then it is important for us to continue learn languages by usually life. I want to learn languages now, which I can and I hope I can speak English well in the future. (929 words)

Essay 2-03a : Most important thing

I have learning a few languages since when I was born. To learn language is very important things for our life. If we can not understand language in the same country, we can not contact each other. Then we can not do anything. For example, we can not to speak, to inform some information, to understand each other’s hart, and to communication between other persons and I. It is not only in the same country, but also overseas. So we learn language. I receive a lot of language’s classes until now. For example, I received Japanese, English and German. I’m learning them still. Then I deepen that knowledge now. In the future, I want to talk a lot of people through English. I will introduce about their content from now on.

First of all, I want to talk all over the world’s people. English is common language all over the world. So I want to speak English very well. I want to get a lot of skills, writing, speaking, reading, and grammar. So, I want to start to remember words, read news paper, watch English TV. I think these are easy way to learn language. Then I want to get those skills through them.

I started to learn language deliberately at six years old in the elementary school’s class. However, it is not first time for us to learn language, because we can speak mother tongue at the age. Actually, we learn language before we are born. Mother talk to her baby to her stomach. I think that the baby listen that the voice inside. Then the young children hear the conversation around adult. When children go to the pre-school, they remember a lot of words. It is not only good words but also bad words.

At the elementary school, I learn Japanese and English. At Japanese, I learn hiragana, katakana and kanji. First we learn hiragana, and second is katakana. After that we learn kanji accordingly the age. Flower is the first kanji for me remember. It was about five years old. I taught it by my brother who is one older than me. It was difficult for me to remember the kanji. When we remember the kanji, we have to remember order writing. To keep order writing is most important things to write beautiful kanji. Then I learn English from ALT teacher. We learn English through some games, and sings. It was very interesting for me to learn English. The other things, I commute English conversation class after school once a week. At the class, I learn a lot of words. For example, I learn alphabets, month, and week etcetera.

When I was secondary school, I started study English in earnest. However grammar was main study. We learn them to use textbooks. Sometimes, we learn English through some games. It was high school too. At the freshman, I started learn English deepen. It was not only grammar, but also English history. And, I learned second foreign language, German. The reason why I choose it, I heard that German looks like English and Japanese. Actually, German looks like Japanese grammar and English words. It is interesting for me to study German. Thus I have learning Japanese, English and German.

Now, I’m learning English deepen knowledge. For example, I’m learning English history, American literature, writing skills, speaking skills, and reading skills and so on. Until when I was high school, I had never learned exact pronunciation. However, at the university, we can learn it through to talk native speakers. We can learn them not only talk, but also hear. Then I found a lot of things. For example I found national expression which use usually life. I felt that it is important for us to learn practical English. I can do it in now.

Thus, I learn a few languages through life and classes. It is not easy for us to learn language, so I think that it is important for us to learn language step by step. Then it is important for us to continue learn usually life. I want to learn language now which I can do now. Then I hope I can speak English well in the future. (701 words)

Lnaguage Learning story outlining

Language
pre-school
mother tongue
family
adult
elementary school
Japanese
hiragana
katakana
kanji
hana
English
conversation school
game
sing
ALT
secondary school / high school
English
grammar
university
English
speaking
writting
reading
grammar
German
reading
grammar
(24 words)

BR2-13 : MY BUSHFIRE DIARY

I read the book which title is “My Bushfire Diary”. The reason why I chose this book, I care about this story. The book’ covers view about fire. So I decide to read this book.

There is some day’s diary in this book. For example, it write about cleaning firebreaks with bulldozers, controlled burn, firefighters and so on. Then it write like diary. When I read this book, I thought that to write diary is good things for us. Because, to write them makes me memorize and we can remember past things. Actually, when I find some diary which I wrote a lot of years ago, I remember those things. It is very enjoy time for me. So I think that to write diary is important for us.

I write diary for two years in the class. It is this blog. It is hard for me to write in this blog to use PC, however it has a few good points. For example, it can study English sentence, and how to use PC. I think that to write diary to use PC, it makes us smart. Don’t you think so?? So I want to write my diary forever. (198 words)

Osaka

Last Wednesday, I went to Osaka to experience sky cast’s job with my friend’s Shiori. It was fifth time for me to go Osaka, however it was first time for Shiori. We were looking forward to go there.

November 18th, we took on air plane at one five after noon. Then we arrived at Osaka about two fifteen. After that, we went to hotel near Higashimikuni station. After a while, we went to Doutonbori. There is one of famous place in Osaka, so we sightseeing around there. Then we ate Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki and Kushikatu. The Takoyaki’s topping were mayonnaise, and Welsh onion. It was nice taste. After we ate Takoyaki, we want to eat more, so we order Okonomiyaki. These were delicious and we were full. And, we were shopping at there. I bought some presents for my family, cousin and friends. Then we took some pictures. A few hours later, we want to eat Kushikatu. So we went to Darumaya to eat Kushikatu. I went to there last year with my high school’s friends. we order Mochi, Katu, and so on. The shop is famous restaurant. If you have a chance to go Osaka, let’s check there. After that, we came back hotel. At hotel, we took bath, watch TV, and so on. Then we talk a lot of things.

November 19th, we got up six thirty in the morning. We ate break fast, and we check out the hotel. November 19th was important day for us. Because, we joined One day Sky Cast’s program. It held by JAL express in Osaka, so we went to Osaka to join the program. At the program, we experience some job. For example, we experienced announce in plane, drink service, and took uniform. These were very good experience for me. I know a lot of things the company. We took some pictures, however, we can’t exhibition. It was regrettable. It finished at one after noon.

After that we went to Osaka castle. I had ever seen the Osaka castle, but I had never been there. We walked around there, and we took some pictures too. Then we went up Osaka castle. The view was so beautiful. The other things, we changed people of history, I changed Toyotomi Hideyoshi who took control of political affairs. Then we learn a lot of things about history. We watched a lot of display. For example, we watched Wooden Image of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Folding screen, Nanban Byobu, Fan, bearing the design of autumn flowers, and so on. These were special display. At there, we ate Mitarashi Dango. It was delicious.

About eight at night, we took on plane to come back Kumamoto. This trip was very good time for me. I want to go Tottoi Sakyu next time. (461 words)