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Nickolas O’Neal
27710 Ashbrook falls court
Fulshear ,Tx 77441
832-775-3368
Nickolas.oneal1102@gmail.com

April 25,2019

Vice President Watkins

Northern Oklahoma College
615 N Monroe St
Stillwater ,OK 74076

Dear Vice President Watkins:

I would like to take a moment of your time to discuss my portfolio and tell you what this means
to me as a whole. The portfolio on my weekly page show who I am as a person and shows how
I've grown throughout the school year into what I am now. The writings in this portfolio shows
the things I care about and shows a few of the views that I have. The work I have put into this
school year means a lot to me because of where I started from and where I have ended up. At the
beginning of the year I was placed in your supplement class not knowing the first thing about
writing. You did what no teacher could which was care about whether I succeeded in life.
Making my writing better was one of your top priorities and I can’t thank you enough for that.
Thanks to you went Im writing essay my stress is at a minimal just because I was shown the
steps to take in order for my paper to be decent.

Furthermore, I would like to discuss the writings that I have chosen and the reasons that I have
chosen them. The writings that I have chosen are all from your comp 1 class. I have chosen them
because I blew this os the best way to show how much I’ve grown as a writer . On my portfolio
my essays are in order from beginning of the semester to the end. My first essay is the worse
collegiate essay I’ve ever written in my opinion simply because I still didn’t know much about
writing a paper but, I was writing about my life back home so it made the essay a tad easier. The
second essay was a little bit better because of progress I had been making in writing supplement.
Getting to third paper it felt like I had went all the way back to step one. I had a hard time
writing this paper because of the research portion but, I did better than I thought I would. Making
our way to the fourth paper I felt like this was the easiest essay of the semester because I felt like
I was prepared.

To add on, crafting my writing process had a big impact on how my papers would turn out when
I was finished. Before learned how to properly write a paper I used to just write off the top of my
head and then I would just edit it later. Now I brainstorm and write outlines so when its time to
write it makes the process much easier. When I reflect back I believe that my supplement class
did a lot more for my writing than my comp class did. You brought me back to techniques that I
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learned when I was younger and helped me perfect those things. Also you showed me what an
outline was for, how to transition my paragraphs , and even how to correctly use a comma. I
must say that I wasn’t completely clueless I had some strengths but I had a substantial amount of
weaknesses.

The strengths I had at the beginning were my ability to structure an essay and my grammar and
mechanics in my opinion which you can see in my first two essays . The few weakness I will say
are most important are the flow of my essay and how I conclude them which you can see I how I
struggled with that on all of my essays.

As a result, I need to shift my focus to working on my weaknesses so that my skills as a writer

can improve and so can my essays. I need to address the way that I approach a essay and learn
how to make it flow so that it will be easier for someone to read it. Also I need to work on
supporting the facts that I state when I am trying to advocate for my point of view in an essay. If
I’m being honest I don’t see my self doing much more writing in the future because of the path
that I am on. You have influenced my life and my writing more than you know and from my
portfolio I think you can start to see that for your self. Just think about what you have done for
me imagine what you have done for other students at NOC whose writing skills were suffering as
well.

Sincerely,

Nickelas O’Neal