Alas, it has come to that time of year where classes are over but the dreaded finals are looming ahead in the days to come. Where has the time gone? How have I actually accomplished things in the blink of an eye we called a semester? Looking back, it seems like I was just moving into my new off-campus house in August. Now it’s December and while this semester has come to a close, this website won’t. Originally, I didn’t know what I wanted for my portfolio. I’ve come to realize that I want my portfolio to be not only for employers to look at my writing style, but also for myself to look back at my old papers and see my growth in the years since. Thus, my portfolio has become a way to both display and archive my writing within the English Department. I’m still not entirely sure what I want to do (if you remember, I wanted to be a nurse. I haven’t completely scratched this off the list, but it has definitely dropped down a couple of slots), I think my dream job would be an editor. I could use this portfolio to show of my writing chops in addition to my personal uses. I’m excited for this opportunity to keep using my website as I’ve put a lot of time and work into making it what I want it to be.
I’ve created the following revision plan as an infographic with the hopes that I actually follow it. The cream color is the past/present, the blue color is 2016, and the purple color is 2017.
It is important to me that I keep this up to date. I’m not very good at journaling, but I hope that I will at least remember to post big life events or things that move me enough to write. It is also important to me because I’d like to use this as a professional website to reference to employers as a sample of my writing. Because of this, I’d like to have a sizable amount of blog posts, so my aim is 2 a month, tapering off to about 1 a month later on.
In order to stay on schedule, I’ll be writing it in my planner as a way to remind myself to check on the website. However, if nothing worth talking about happened in that particular month, I’m not going to force a blog post just because I have to make my quota. This is because my style and voice of writing changes when I want to write versus when I’m being forced to write.
In essence, the biggest part of the website that I plan on using is my blog posts section. I do intend on uploading new projects, but that will not be my main focus. The audience for my website would be potential employers, as my resume and writing samples are included, but also people like my parents who enjoy reading my fun anecdotes about my everyday life. I’ll manage all of this by remembering to post a couple times a month and uploading good papers as I write them. I am very excited to keep up the maintenance of the site as I’m eager to see how my writing will have changed in the next year and a half, possibly longer.
