Portfolio for Writing IV, Section 1c

Student ID: 07115
Portfolio for Writing IV,
Section 1c


(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

1.0. Essays

(See: Note 3, below.)

Please complete this table with data gathered from essays on your blog. See the Key (below) for definitions of the symbols in row one, and complete columns four through nine with numerical values (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates yy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
Website review 08.09.29 (375+ words)	Website Review "Chiristian Riese Lassen"	08, 9 ,22	2	392	5	1	1	0
Favorite place(-s) 08.10.20 (450+ words)	Essay: My favorite place	08,10,15	5	456	2	0	0	0
Mrs. Doubtfire 08.11.04 (500+ words)	MRS. DOUBT FIRE	08,11,04	4	262	12	0	1	0
Community life 08.11.17 (default length*)	Community Life	08,11,16	4	288	0	0	0	0
Kumamoto's best-kept secrets 08.12.01 (5+ ¶¶)	Secret of Kumamoto	08,11,30	5	243	0	0	0	0
Learning with computers 2008.12.15 (6+ ¶¶)	Essay: Learning with computer	08,12,14	6	370	0	0	0	0
Totals	---	---	26	2011	19	1	2	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
*: "long enough to cover the ... [communities] you choose," Writing Studio Blog, Preparation for Next Essays, 2008.10.29)

1.2. Best Essay

Selection and Assessment: Which of those six assigned essays 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.

• [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets, then identify your best essay, and write out your reasons for selecting it here.]
  

2.0. Comments

Showcase	Titles of posts with links	Dates of comments yy.mm.dd	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*	0	0	0	0
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*
2.4. Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts yy.mm.dd	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---

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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 them good comments.

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.

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2.6. Additional reflections on comments

• [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets; then write out your reflections on both giving and receiving comments here.]
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3.0. Book Reviews

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates (yy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
2-01	Pinocchio	08.08.01	271	0
2-02	The Emperor's New clothes	08.08.05	264	0
2-03	Stories of Ghosts	08.08.17	224	0
2-04	Stories of Princes and Princesses	08.09.21	152	0
2-05	Romeo & Juliet	08.09.29	315	0
2-06	Sleeping Beauty	08.10.06	417	0
2-07	The Fox and the Stork	08.11.12	108	0
2-08	The Gingerbread Man	08.11.26	75	0
2-09
2-10
2-11
2-12
2-13
2-14
2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18
---	---	Totals:

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.

• [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets; then identify your best book review, and write out reasons for selecting it here.]

4.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking, & 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 have labels displayed in sidebar?
5.2.1. 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? ___ 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. www (n) xxx (m) yyy (o) zzz (p) ...	---	---
4.3. Links & media	---	---
4.3.1. Does your blog 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? ___ 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? ___ 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? ___ 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 (yy.mm.dd) for reference. ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date)	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation 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. ...
2. ...
3. ...

5.0. Additional reflections on your blog and your writing on it

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

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6.0. Advice and suggestions for yourself, your peers, and your successors

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TODAY is MY BIRTH DAY

Today is my birthday!!! I was very happy because many friends celebrated my birthday. I thank club members, loving close girl friends, friends of boy and my family. I have never been happier♪♪ I love them!!!（●＾o＾●）

First, my grandmother took me out for lunch yesterday. I drank alcohol with her. It was very delicious. I thank her very much. I do hope she live a long.

Dear, club members. I ‘m sorry that I can’t join club activities. I’ve got problems. I want to play with them, too. It’s not only problem of monetary and time. I was very happy with our presents. I use them carefully. I love you!! Especially, the hand mirror of frog is very cute. I intend to use it naturally, too. And mug of banana. I washed it at once. I always drink coffee from morning till night. No day when I don’t use mages. So, I’ll drink coffee with this mag. Thanks★

I liked white scarf very much. I like white. This is very pretty. You know my taste very much. I’m happy. And kumano-pooh-san, I tried to wear again after I came back home. This suits me very much. Thank you!!!

And then, I played with my friends. I went to “Swiss” to have lunch for the first time. I ate carry rice. And we ate cakes. I ate “petit Noel”. This is chocolate and raw cream cake. It’s very cute and good taste. After lunch, we went to karaoke♬
I was satisfied with singing. I could sing a new song of Mika Nakashima. Her new song was very good. I want to sing the song again. I spent good time!! Let’s go to karaoke again.

And, I always thank R. very much. I love you～(●＞3＜●)-chu★ I use the necklace carefully. And my close friends, I thanks very much.

I spent good night time, too. Thank you for taking me a good restaurant and a good night view place by car. I can see very beautiful night view and stars. Kinpozan is famous for its beautiful night view. It was good place. Thank you for accompanying with me until after midnight.

I can spend a good birth day. I thank all of them.

[390 words]

Essay: Learning with computer

I have a computer at home, but it is not mine. All of family members use it to play, study and research. Someone use it everyday. Computer is very useful. I use computer at house or school everyday, too.

When I was a junior high school student, I began to use computer on the class. It was the first time for me. When I was a high school student, I learned how to use the computer in earnest. Fist, I learned how to type. It was difficult for me to type with the key board without looking the position of key. So, I learned to type easily. And then, I study how to use "Excel", "PowerPoint", "word" and so on. These are very useful. Especially, I often use "word" for making reports. Besides I knew about Internet. I learned how to research on the Internet.

And now, I use computer everyday to study and research. I often make reports and I study English with computer. We can do the English, game on the Internet and improve my English skill. It is very helpful. I sometimes use the translation system. When I don't know how to translation, I use it. It is very useful and helpful. I'm fun to learn English thanks to this system.

I often use computer except studying. I see various site. Blog is fun. I can know various thing, feelings and ideas. Especially, I like see diary. It is interesting. I don't know how people write them, but the writing tells me idea and feelings themselves.

Then, I use computer to research to something. I can know a lot of information of the Internet. For example, affairs of Japan and the world, show business news, weather forecast and favorite something.It is interesting to use Internet.

However, I learn fear of computer, too. We can know a lot of and various thing on the Internet. Information are flooded. We have to get correct information from a lot of information. There are mistaken information, too. We learned to choose correct information in the a lot of those from the computer. It is difficult to ascertain. Computer is very useful if don't mistake a use.
[370 words]

Food stuff

I am interested in researching nourishment. recently. I care about food I eat. I always research how nutrient do the food I eat have.
My electronic dictionary is very useful because the dictionary have many function. There is " the medical science of meal". So, I can research various foods easily. It is fun for me to know about food. I can make various discovery with my electronic dictionary., sometimes computer.
The foods is bad for health I thought is actually good for health.

For example, nuts. I thought that nuts was high calories, and nuts are bad for health. However I knew that nuts can reduce cholesterol. Especially peanut is better, but we should care to eat nuts too much. Nuts are high calories but good for health.

I want to learn dietetics. I want to know each food and nourishment. And then I want to try to ponder balance of nourishment. I may be suited studying them more than English.
[161 words]

Changed my taste

It is said that taste is changing with age. When I was a young, I thought it wasn't correct. However, I realize it recently because I could eat somefood that I dislike. And I didn't like some food that I liked.

I had liked raw fish, sasimi, since I was a child. My family liked it, too. So, we ate it almost every week. I was glad to eat it. Especially, my favorite fish are salmon, urchin, shrimp and flatfish. I ate them without wasabi. I can't eat only wasabi.

I hadn't eaten sasimi lately. So, I ate sasimi yesterday. Surprisingly, I found the fish taste fishy strong. I thought I might dislike raw fish. I like fish, so I often eat grilled fish. I love them. I like fish itself but I don't like to eat fish raw so much.

I realized that, while I realized one thing more. I couldn't eat wasabi until now but I could eat wasabi yesterday. I was surprised because I felt taste of wasabe was good. I try to eat wasabi more!!

Did my taste change indeed??? Perhaps the quality of fish has been bad. I don't know the truth. I'll eat grilled fish in either event.
[215 words]

My Birth Day

My birth month is December. I'll be twenty years old next week. I'll be adult at last. I don't realize that I'll be twenty years old!! My mental is still child. How time flies!

When I was about twelve years old, I thought fifteen years old is enough mature on the mental side. and when I was fifteen years old, I thought eighteen years old and over is much maturer still. However, I missed my tip. It seems to take me long time to be a adult.

Age of twenty is special, but I fears to be twenty years old. I think that there is a big difference between nineteen and twenty years old. It is sad to be adult, but there is a welcome thing. That's to drink. I can buy and drink alcohol drinks openly. I'm looking forward to drinking them.

I heard sometime that birthday is day when thank parents. We are usually celebrated by family, friends, boyfriend or girlfriend and so on. However, it seems that we should be respectful to our parents. I agree with this thought. I think them.

I wish twenty years old will be good age. I wish I can get happy.
[208 words]

Learning with computers

I have begun to use computers since I was a high school student. First, I learned how to type in the class from teacher. So, I could type speedy. Now I use computer when I write my essays on blog. Many people give me their comments, so I can know their idea and feelings. It is interesting to post to my blog. And I often use computer to get various information. For example, weather information, world and Japan affairs. I can know many things I want to know with Internet. Especially, I often research about my favorite things. They are songs, movies, pictures. I sometimes listen to music on the Internet. I often watched movies and pictures. And I can study with computer. I often translate Japanese into English with computer. It is very useful.
[135 words]

[Brainstorm] Learning with Computers

Internet
Information of weather
information of world
personal idea
personal feelings
from contents of computer
powerpoint
word
excel
typing
cooking ricipe
translation
communication
G-mail
Blogging
Pictures
Dictionaries
Shopping
Helpful
Connecting
New people
Useful
Movie

[35 words]

Takeru Sato

When I was a high school student, I saw a drama in the morning. This drama was "kamen rider" that was popular among boys. I had never seen these dorama and I hadn't known about him. I had to get up early to work. I usually turn on television immediately if I get up. And then, it was broadcasted with television. The chief character of the drama was Takeru Sato. I was not interested in kamen rider at all till I watched the drama. I watched his performance. And I thought he was very cool. I didn't know he was cool only watching it a little. However, I came to like him and the drama while I looked it sometimes. He is age same as me. He intends to become more famous. His appearance works are Rookies and bloody monday. And then, Meichan-no- shitsuji begins in January of the next year. However, I like him in kamen rider most.

It is his blog. If you go to the URL, you can know him well. http://ameblo.jp/takeru-s/

[182 words]