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.

• ...
  

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.]
• ....
  

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).

• ...
• ...
• ...
  

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

• ...
• ...
• ...

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]

[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]

Secret of Kumamoto

I researched about family names in Kumamoto because I am interested in and I want to know them. I think that there are family names that exist in only Kumamoto prefecture. I want to know the family names and origin.

The family name that exist most in Kumamoto is Tanaka "田中". Second is Nakamura “中村”. Third is Matsumoto “松本”. Tanaka is the old topography family name that came into existence in a meaning that　lived in the field. Kansai and the Sea of Japan side have many this family names. Nakamura called Motomura (Hongo) Nakamura for a de-centralized village. This is kyushu of representative family names. Matsumoto is the place where deified pines grow thick. There is a lot this in West Japan with the progenies such as Kanmu Heike clan (Ise).

Next, I introduce unusual family names. 禿 "Hage", 早起 "Hayaki", 父母 "Hubo", 鳳凰 "Houou", 地下 "Chika", 続 "Tsuduki". Especially, Hayaki and Houou is rare family name. These family name exist in only Kumamoto. And, Can you know how to say "一"?? This is "Ninomae". It's so funny name.

There are rare family names exist more in Kumamoto and in the other prefecture, too.　I compare it with other prefectures. The North Japan has much Sato family names; "Kanto has much Suzuki family names"; "Kansai has much Tanaka family names". Furthermore, most family names are 佐藤 "Sato" in Japan. Second is 鈴木 "Suzuki", third is 高橋 "Takahashi".

I am interested in family name more. I want to research about family name in Fukuoka.
[243 words]

Secret of Kumamoto ［BRAIN STORM］

history
food
taipien（タイピーエン）
family name of origin
TV personality
dubber
actor
model
caricaturist
owarai performer
singer
good unknown spot in Kumamomto for shopping
eating
driving
playing
[27 words]

Community Life

I am involved with various people and live now. The place where I live of now are the university, my house and the workplace. At each place, I get to know with many people and live together. The human relations are serious things. However, the people whom I am concerned with are very good people.

For example, I spend most with a friend at school. They are cool very much!! There are few friends who can be close to me without the same subject at a university, but there is the place that we can be involved with many people without a class by the school life. It is a club. I can make friends with the people who cannot get to know at the normal in the club while I spend a university life. Especially, It is good that I can associate with not only the classmate but also younger and older persons in the circle. In the circle, I can learn human relations and, top and bottom relations. All are close and live happily.

I comparatively have few neighborhood acquaintance. I can be involved with a lot of people if I want to be concerned, but am very particular. And I am involved with a lot of people in the workplace. At first, there is the friend of the workshop. I have worked for 2 years at a cake shop. There are eight employees without me. One is a part-time worker in that. She is the same age with me. I work happily together.

I can get to know with various people and I take good stimulation from them and live. If I am active positively more, the ring of the friend will spread more.
[288 words]

Community life: Brainstorm

◆University
　classmates
　club members
　teather
◆HomeTown
job
coworkers
boss
neighborhoods
family members, relative
[14 words]

MRS. DOUBT FIRE

I watched a DVD "MRS. DOUBT FIRE". At first, this movie is comedy, love and human movies. this movie includes some themes. For example, love, family, job, life. Especially, I thought this movie tell us the importance of the family.

Next, my impression about this movie are pleasant, but impressive. Father who is the chief character of this movie is a very pleasant person. He loves children than anything. His love comes from the scene of the beginning of the movie. Among the stand-ins of the cartoon film, he resisted the boss about a small bird smoking. It was resistance with his thinking about children. I thought working is important. If I were him, I couldn't quit the job such as him. I thought He was best father in the world.

He loved his children, but mother loved children, too. However, about the divorce, I thought that it was a difficult problem. I think that it is not a problem only for them to be divorced. The poorest person is the children. I felt that the children lived happily at least. It is not good to take one parent out of children for a selfish thought of a parent.

However, I think that his action is abnormal when I think from an aspect of a lifestyle. It is not good to do too much it. He acted without a thought. I was able to understand feelings of mother well. but, I like this father. It is very enviable. He is the father who is humorous, interesting and full of love.

[262 words]

Lifestyles

It is easy to tell about my lifestyle because it's simple. The places I live are my house, train, school, work. I think my life is repeating same thing everyday. However, I think that I am leading a full life.

I wake up at 6 or 7 in the morning on weekdays to go to school. I ride in train. It takes me about two hours to get school. Recently, I am walking from a station to school for an hours. And then, I study English at the school and go back home. After I get home, I eat dinner watching TV and sleep.

At holiday, I am working at cake shop about for 7 hours. So, I was busy to earn money of life.
[126 words]

Family

I have four members in my family. My father, my mother, my younger sister and me. I introduce my younger sister. My younger sister is a junior high school student. She is younger than I by 5 years old. She is a candidate. However, she don't study. I am worried about her very much. I don't know what she want to become in her future.

I think that she is clever because she can do everything. For example, she is good at using computer. I think she can study. She just don't study.
[96 words]

Essay: My favorite place

I have favorite places. I like to spend my free time in my house. However, I like outdoor, too.
I like to watch TV. I sometimes rent DVD from rental shop and I watch DVDs at home. The time that I spend at home makes me relax. What I do at home are watching DVD, singing, drawing, cooking, reading books and excising.

My best place is my house. In the indoor without my house, I like the car, too. I like driving. The ride comfort of the car is very good. I become very sleepy when I sit in the seat next to the driver. In addition, I run a car and like watching outside scenery. It is very pleasant that I listen to music while going for a drive.

In addition, I like Home Town outdoors. My hometown is Omuta. There are few people in Omuta. Time goes by slowly and Omuta is very quiet place. I often walk in Omuta recently. It is very comfortable to take a walk in this season. Because wind was too comfortable on the holiday of last week, I took a walk for about 1 hour. Furthermore, there is the mountain where a star looks good in Oomuta. I see a night view clearly, too. It is scary to go to the mountain at night, but it is a very good place. At the mountain, I can watch the beautiful thing, the air is clear, pure and cool, there are few people, and a heart feels at ease by being surrounded naturally. My hometown has many good place.
Furthermore, I like the town of Kumamoto, too. Kumamoto is a city with a property in contradiction to Oomuta. I like places with a few people with stillness like Oomuta, but like Kumamoto city, too. There are many people and shops. The town is always full of many people. It is a very good place to play. I am happy just to walk the downtown. There are various shops in the downtown. Two years have passed since I begin to come to Kumamoto city to study at KGU.However I have not Known about Kumamoto city in detail. I went to shimotouri and Kamitouri, but there are many shops I have never gone. I want to go to all shops alone till I am satisfied when I have a free time. Then I want to find favorite shops in Kumamoto.

Last week, I walked in kumamoto city after school, too. I walked from KGU to Kumamoto station. It takes me one hour to get to the station. I felt that kumamoto city is good place at that time. I like Omuta and Kumamoto. My favorite place is in Omuta and Kumamoto!!!

[456 words]

Brain Storm

Cool
Comfortable
Beautiful
Relax
Few people
Stars
Nature
Pure air
inside
outside in the night
[13 words]

My Introduction!!

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"Power Point" Trouble followed

I had writing homework "power point". I introduced myself using "power point". But, Internet trouble happened. I went to a site, "slide share" to upload the PowerPoint. I did hard to upload. I knew how to upload because I had learned the way from my friends. So, I registered at the slide share and could went to home of the site. And then I clicked "Browser and select files" and I select my file. However, nothing happened!!! So, I could not go next. Why???

I did very hard. I completed my homework "PowerPoint". I do not the reason. I did homework on my computer at home . Is my computer wrong?? Why nothing happened?? I will try to do with a computer of school tomorrow. That's why I intend to put PowerPoint on blog tomorrow.
[133 words]

Portfolio for Writing III,

Student ID: 07115
(last five digits of
your student no.)

Portfolio for Writing III,
Section 1a [or] 1c
(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

1.0. Essays

(See: Note 3, below[.])

1.1. Showcase	Short titles [+ links]	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	¶	W	C	L	P	M
Self-introduction 08.04.20 (250 words)	Writing Placement essay for writing 3	2008,04,09	3	251	2	0	0	0
Movie review 08.05.04 (300 words)	MR1-1 Shrek	2008,05,04	6	563	0	0	1	0
University life 08.05.18	University Life	2008,05,14	6	469	6	0	0	0
Another review 08.06.01	Amusement ground	2008,05,28	5	423	2	0	3	0
Language learning history 08.06.15	Learning Language My History	2008,06,11	7	511	0	0	0	0
6th essay (Slide show) 2008.07.06
Totals	---	---

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 embedded

1.2. Best Essay

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

• [Remove these square brackets, including these remarks; identify your best essay, and write out reasons for selecting it here.]
  

2.0. Comments

Showcase	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*
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 (yyyy.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 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?

• ...
  

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

• [Remove these square brackets, including these remarks; write out your reflections on giving and receiving comments here.]
  

3.0. Book Reviews

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates (yyyy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
1-01	The Wizard Of Oz	08.04.26	66	0
1-02	The Story of Castle	08.05.13	506	0
1-03	Aladdin	08.07.03	433	0
1-04	The little mermaid	08.07.06	285	0
1-05	The clumsy crocodile	08.07.07	148	0
1-06	The story of the witches	08.07.07	173	0
1-07	The stories of Dragons	08.07.08	129	0
1-08	Little Red Riding Hood	08.07.08	128	0
1-09	Gulliver's Travels	08.07.08	102	0
1-10	The Billy Goats Gruff	08.07.08	142	0
1-11	Stories of Robots	08.07.08	151	0
1-12	Stories of Pirates	08.07.08	157	0
1-13	Folk tales from Around the world	08.07.09	89	0
---	---	TOTALS:

Note: Please calculate book review words and comments totals without 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? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• [Remove these square brackets, including these remarks; 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 have 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 "photos" (plural)
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 pictures or other graphics?
Does your blog profile include a picture or graphic representation?
How many of your blog posts this semester include pictures or other graphics? ___ posts including pictures 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 them here: ... ... ...	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

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

1. ...
2. ...
3. ...

5.0. Additional reflections on your blog writing

• ...

6.0. Suggestions for your peers and successors

• ...

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Notes:

1. This portfolio template derives from the templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc portfolios (2007-08).
2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios in the footer of your blog.
   
3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derives from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008)