This project is a movie trailer for a documentary I will be filming the summer of 2021. After my graduation I will embark on a five month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. I will be documenting my experience and creating a professional documentary. With the help of Dr. Stacey Irwin, this documentary will fulfill my requirements for graduation as well as give me a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel across the country in a unique way.
This project will explore two books: The Four Theories of the Press and This is Not Propaganda as well as academic articles. In doing this, I will compare and contrast how media has been run in the past and how it is being run today in an attempt to analyze if history is repeating itself or if the media industry is changing for the better. I plan on backing the comparisons and the conclusion with evidence from academic articles and journals.
This is a creative project, and is a innovative and experimental writing piece called a hybrid text. This means it is one story told through a variety of genres (drawings, poetry, and prose). I was inspired by Shakespeare, so the title is a shoutout to one of his works, and the story itself is the fictional telling of the story of a girl completely through her dreams. Inspiration came from a bit of innovative and experimental genres, along with works produced underneath them. It was inspired by postmodern writing (such as poetry by Charles Olsen), a bit of projective verse and BEAT style, surrealism and modernism, procedurals, hybrid texts such as "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid", and many experimental pieces of writing that appear in the collected works of "Experimental Literature." The most interesting part of a hybrid text, which I would like to focus on, as I will focus on a forward about the research which has gone into the piece, and an afterword of its usefulness in my academic and professional career, is that such a piece, all within itself, showcases a variety of my skills throughout different genres. As I am a writing studies concentration, this is helpful in showcasing a variety of my writing styles within one example, and would therefore be a great addition to a professional portfolio.
The aspect of my presentation will be a discussion of a digital portfolio as a whole. I will be using my own examples I have curated for my own eportfolio. The project will prepare students for their professional careers or graduate school.
A professional portfolio is a compilation of documents and artifacts that showcase your experience, skills, interests, qualifications, and professional goals. The portfolio will consist of a Homepage, About Me page, Resume, and Writing samples.
This presentation will discuss the digital portfolio project, the process of creating a digital portfolio and samples from our personal portfolios. In our research we will break down the benefits of digital portfolios when seeking out a post graduate career or higher education.
Digital portfolios provide more insight into what their future employee may look like and get an idea of what they bring to the table. The digital portfolio is used to give employers more than just a resume to look at when determining if they should hire you. Digital portfolios are one place to house all of your best works, resume, and info about you.
My project is an analysis of masculinity in the film Moonlight. I provide commentary on scenes in the movie and explain how the characters portray masculinity.
Font Fanzine is a 4-page newsletter spread detailing the impacts of fonts in writing, the psychology of fonts, and the difference between different font typefaces.
You’re at home reading your favorite academic journal. It addresses a recent discovery of a bacteria found along the ridges of camera lenses on cell phones. When in contact with skin, this bacteria can cause an itchy red rash that can last up to three weeks. Fear takes over your gaze. As your eyes are scanning down the article in hopes that your phone is not infected, something catches your eye. Out of nowhere, something scarier than the information before you appears: Comic Sans MS. The author of the journal switches from documenting their information using the classic font Times New Roman and switches to the playful Comic Sans font. You can no longer continue taking this academic journal seriously. Is this a joke? It isn’t. This is very real. This is font mood connotation. Font mood connotation is used to describe the subconscious emotions we inherently associate with a certain font. The psychology of font choices is real and it exists in the choices we make when writing.
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the wide and beneficial use that digital portfolios have across multiple disciplines. Digital portfolios have a wide range of use and are capable of being applied across multiple disciplines and applied towards an abundant number of careers. What we aim to do is to show the benefit that anyone in any field can garner when utilizing a digital portfolio.
My project is on how the Columbian exchange changed the diets of Europeans and fueled the Industrial Revolution. Many of the common foods eaten today in Europe were not available to Europeans living before the advent of the Columbian exchange in 1492. Crops such as potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, maize, tobacco, coco, and coffee are native to the Americas and were only introduced to Europeans after 1492. These foods- such as tomatoes and potatoes- are foods that most modern people view as staples of European diets. However, they did not exist in Europe until the 16th century. In fact, both potatoes and tomatoes were actually welcomed with suspicion when they were first introduced to Europeans. It was not until the late 18th century that potatoes were enthusiastically included in European diets, and it was not until tomatoes became popular in the United States that they became a popular foodstuff in Europe. The adoption of crops from the Columbian exchange led to a more robust European population. Europeans were better nourished and experienced less incidences of starvation. This also significantly facilitated the start and continuation of the Industrial Revolution. In my presentation, I will also talk about why I am incorporating this paper in my digital portfolio.
This project considers the messiness and authenticity of in the moment writing. It is a collection of poems, thoughts, doodles, and the like, all written on index cards. Index card poetry explores the idea of what writing can be when the pressure of quality and aesthetic is removed.
This project will showcase a variety of samples that can be included in a digital portfolio. Samples will include select articles, creative pieces, pieces that illustrate editing skills, and pieces that include design elements. This will help students understand that a portfolio is a wide collection of pieces that are not restricted to one specific style of writing or media.
Employers and admissions offices are increasingly asking for evidence of skills, ability, passion, and knowledge when students apply for a job or a graduate program. A digital portfolio is a convenient, creative, and effective way to house a living resume that consists of samples, artifacts, and past projects. This presentation will feature a few samples from my own digital portfolio with reflections on how each sample highlight my work ethic and research interests.
For my Digital Portfolio class, I am required to present something related to said subject matter, and have elected to, instead of simply presenting a single artifact of my future portfolio, show off how one goes about constructing such a thing, examples of the pieces I might showcase in my own portfolio, and how all these pieces come together to, in some way, aid me in my search for employment in the education sphere in my near future.
The Use and Abuse of the Oxford Comma is an article about the history and modern use of the Oxford comma and by extension punctuation in general. This article gives a brief overview of punctuation history from the first use of the comma to a recent court case that hinges on the use of an oxford comma. A controversial topic for some, the oxford comma represents the flexibility of punctuation in the English language. Whether to use for a meme or in formal papers, oxford commas make for a fun point of punctuation.
With a passion for sports journalism, I've spent the last four years improving my writing skills and gaining invaluable experience as an amateur sports reporter with the Hershey Bears hockey team. Through my four years at Millersville, I've been able to better my writing and apply it to the work I've done outside of college. As my portfolio continues to grow, I hope to showcase the work I've done, the experience I've gained, and recognize professors that helped me improve as a writer during my time at Millersville University.
I want to talk about a Philadelphia Flyers game that I attended and covered a play-by-play article on in March of 2020, right before the COVID pandemic hit. I covered this event for an assignment for ENGL315 Advanced Reporting. I wrote an article of a hockey game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Winnipeg Jets and I believe it is a good example of how to cover a sports event and highlight the important aspects of a game. I think this article represents some of my best work in covering a sporting event so I would be very comfortable discussing it.
For my COMM 326 class our assignment was to create a story involving sustainability. The catch was that it had to be local to Lancaster. Our project was going to be published on ProjectGreenLancaster on the Millersville University website. For my piece, I found a company called Sustainable Composites LLC, where they take scraped leather and refurbish it into quality products such as wallets, belts, bags, and other products. I had the chance to interview the founders of Sustainable Composites LLC for my story. This project is a way to demonstrate my journalism skills with my interview with the founders as well as my ability to create and write a story.
Video Games are becoming the biggest part of teenagers and kids lives today. So its important to think about some of the negative effects that some of the games that have violence have on them. I wanted to pursue this because there are multiple ways to pursue this topic and I'm excited to dive into it.
