You have waited years for this moment. After a lifetime of waiting, you finally get the chance to learn the necessary skills to become a ninja and you can’t hold your excitement in! Although you are excited, you are also nervous on the experiences and challenges to come in the next few years in the academy. With your kunai and shuriken in hand, you finally decide to take a leap faith and open door to the academy. 

In the ninja academy, you will learn the different skills that are essential to becoming a great ninja just like how ENGL 131L taught me all the necessary literary techniques that allowed me to master the course outcomes and become a better writer overall. After careful consideration, I have chosen the three pieces I believe will reflect my growth in proficiency in both the English language as well as the outcome requirement for the portfolio. Essentially, I hope that my portfolio will be able to reflect my master of the course outcomes through the pieces that I have meticulously chosen.

For my portfolio, I have chosen SA2, SA3, and the discourse essay as the showcase pieces as all these pieces demonstrate mastery over the different course outcomes. I have chosen SA3 and SA2 because they fulfill outcomes 1 and 2 respectively. SA2 is able to address a broad group of audience and contexts while SA3 is especially good at using a variety of evidence to support the claims that are present in it. As for the discourse essay, I have chosen it as a showcase piece because I believe that this piece skillfully develops a complex and persuasive argument that reflects my own personal belief and values, therefore fulfilling major outcome 3. As a whole, I believe that the revisions I have made on these pieces showcase outcome 4 because I believe that these pieces are a good reflection of how I progressed in terms of being able to revise and edit different pieces of writing. If you have read this entire thing and are scratching your head asking yourself what exactly a course outcome is, I don’t exactly blame you. 

To put it simply, outcomes are the essential skills that every good writer needs to possess and are skills you need to master in order to be successful in ENGL 131L.

Anyways, lets stop talking about all this boring stuff and lets get started on our first course here in the ninja academy!