Dear Reader

My name is Matthew Downsworth and I grew up on a small island where I was home schooled by my mom and dad. I liked being home schooled because I could get done with my work fast and I could work around a schedule. In the 6th grade I went to public school to give it a shot and to make more friends. After the 6th grade I did some scholastics testing because I was having a lot of problems with schoolwork and understanding what was being taught. The test showed that I was Dyslexia and my weak points were reading, writing, and English. To help me out my mom and dad took me out of public school to work on my weak points in a way that I could understand and I could take my own time.
For high school I decided that I wanted to go to public school so I could graduate with my friends. Because of my parents help in home schooling, public school was not too hard and I would be able to graduate with my friends. When I was about to graduate friends and teachers said that the most important time of your life is what you do after high school and what you pick to do will change your life forever. Well I chose to go to college and try to get a degree in computer because I enjoy working on and with computers. Ever since I left high school many things have changed in my life and I have learned a lot.
I went to Skagit Community College after high school. It was very different from high school but since it was on the island I had a lot of high school teachers teaching me at the college. After two years at Skagit I decide that I wanted to get off the island and go to a real college because everyone at the Skagit campus was running on island time and the teachers did not care too much. I researched colleges and decided that I would go to Everett Community College.
This quarter I decided to take an English class even though I do not like writing or English because it is difficult for me. When I took English 97 at Everett Community College things just seemed to click and the material was starting to make sense in writing and English. This whole quarter has been like a puzzle where the pieces are just falling in to place and things are making sense. I have learned a lot about sentence format and writing papers.
In English 97 we had to do many different things to help improve our self’s in this quarter, the class had to do different kinds of journal writing assignments, post blog's on a website and do MWA which is major writing assignments. During this class we went over many different types of ways to write papers, like narrative, descriptive, process, and a few other types. A narrative is where you tell a story about something real or not real. Were as a descriptive is where you describe something that you have experienced. Then a process is how to tell the order of something like a perfect day or how to build something. At the end of the class we have to do an e-portfolio, which consists of four writing assignments that we have done in class. For the four writing assignments we had to have a major writing assignment, a descriptive, a blog or a journal and a writer's choice.
For this assignment I have picked papers that show my new strengths in my writing and English that I have acquired in English 97 class. Also I felt very strong about the pieces I pick because I felt that I learned a lot from writing them. This assignment I think shows a lot about me, and what I learned in English 97. I hope that you will enjoy all the assignments that I have picked and thank you for tanking a moment out of your day to read my e-portfolio.