#14: Final reflection

I’ve been tasked with writing “a FINAL REFLECTION on HOW a PORTFOLIO is a good record of your writing skills, HOW it can help you study for your final exam, whether you are aware of writing strategies, etc.” and here it is.

I think that blogs and portfolios are for creative work. One puts his latest creation in the portfolio, along with the previous and the future ones, with the intention to show the whole portfolio to an employer at some point in the future. I think this because, to me, creative work doesn’t have perfection standards. Academic work, on the other hand, does, so the function of the portfolio here is different.

Because of how my memory works I tend not to write summaries. I highlight what is important in a text, and go back to it whenever I need to study. I can usually remember where in the page, or in the paragraph, I found something interesting, especially if it struck me when I first read it. Though I could take that part and rewrite it in a summary, I don’t do it because I lose the entire context.

The one writing strategy that I do find very useful is editing. The ability to rewrite a text makes it easy to write coherent and cohesive pieces of text, especially with a tool that remembers how the text was written in a previous edition (like Google Drive). However, this iteration is only possible if the time constraints aren’t too tight, or if there is none.  Again, academic work is different, especially in a test situation.