Dear Reader,

Plagued by the lack of motivation due to quarantine and remote learning, I must admit

that writing , along with my other studies, have suffered undoubtfully. However, like the rest of

the world dealing with these changes, I adapted and continued to work through these challenges.

With the help of my course instructor, Julie Johnson, I do feel like I have made noticeable

improvements with my writing whether it be word choices or a closer look at what is considered

credible depending on a genre of writing.

Those areas of enhancement stem from the course work read and discussed in the class.

We first started the quarter with understanding and analyzing just what is “genre” and rhetorical

situations” by reading short-literary work written by credible writers. Some who included works

from writing Professor Lisa Bickmore who defined genre as a useable form to convey

communitive intentions1 and Professor Kelly Dirk who states that in genre, writers make specific

choices to elite specific responses from readers2. Once we understood these words, we then

applied them towards our writing to create this portfolio on a peer-reviewed article of our

choosing. The portfolio encompasses a translation of a different genre of the peer-reviewed

article, an explanatory essay on why this translation was done, and a literature review bringing in

academic and non-academic sources.

My translation for the peer-reviewed article entitled “A Body of Work: A Case Study of

Tattoo Culture” was a museum display of the different people who collect tattoos and the

number of tattoo styles artists possess. Displaying tattoos as a museum would aids towards the

1
Lisa Bickmore, “GENRE in the WILD: Understanding Genre Within Rhetorical (Eco)Systems,” Go to the cover page
of Open English @ SLCC (Open English @ SLCC, August 1, 2016).
2
Kerry Dirk, “Navigating Genres,” in Writing Spaces: Reading on Writing, Volume 1, ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel
Zemliansky (Parlor Press,2010), 254.
argument that tattoo are an art as it is being displayed as such. The changes I made toward my

explanatory essay to convey the message that tattoos are an art were clearly explaining every

source I referenced to vouch for its credibility and how it relates to my argument. I also

expanded on statements made by bringing other perspectives as I sometime assumed readers

would have certain knowledge towards the topics discussed. For my literature review, I made

necessary changes towards topic sentences as they were unclear, leading readers to a different

interpretation than intended. I also switched the tone from passive to active voice because

passive voice creates the illusion of my ideas taking place in the past rather than them happening

in the now.

The design layout of my Weebly site was chosen in a format that is easy to follow. I

dedicated three sections each displaying their own information to engage readers with myself

and my work. The first section of this site serves as a welcome page to introduce myself to

readers by displaying some of my interests and hobbies in the form of a “Mood Board”. The

second section is dedicated towards my portfolio, so people have a place to read my writing. The

last section on this website is where readers can actually see me and read a brief excerpt about

myself. Every section was chosen and designed in a way to not only demonstrate who I am as an

individual, but also as a writer.

 Bibliography

Bickmore, Lisa. “GENRE in the WILD: Understanding Genre Within Rhetorical (Eco)Systems.”

Go to the cover page of Open English @ SLCC. Open English @ SLCC, August 1, 2016.

https://openenglishatslcc.pressbooks.com/chapter/genre-in-the-wild-understanding-genre-

within-rhetorical-ecosystems/#genredefinition

Dirk, Kerry, “Navigating Genres,” in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, edited by

Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky, 249-262. Parlor Press, 2010.