Midtern Portfolio (paragraph)

      The English 045 class I am taking this semester helped me to improve my writing on how to create a paragraph. I´ve learned rules and steps to follow to write a paragraph. Before I´ve took English 045 I was very insecure about writing. Firstable because English is not my first language and secondable I was going back to school after more then ten years. This class gave a great help on how to write a paragraph. My first   paragraph was just a bunch of sentence that were not connected on a main idea as in http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3161225152482525209#editor/target=post;postID=5464683614312822014. Now I´ve learned that before writing I need to brainstorm all my ideas and they need to be connected on a same subject as inhttp://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3161225152482525209#editor/target=post;postID=3869491371035240252. Also I´ve learned how to write a journal. When I was asked to write a journal about Evergreen from pages 2-18 http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3161225152482525209#editor/target=post;postID=30331755718038760 I did a summary instead.I had corrected on http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3161225152482525209#editor/target=post;postID=30331755718038760. I´ve learned that a journal is a way to practice our writing, it´s private and give us a little freedom on the style and technique we decide to use. Another example of my improvement is the essay about Restaurants. It took me a lot of time and thinking, over and over checking all my ideas, organizing all the information that I would use. After revising I noticed that on the body of the essay I've written no much about the services of the restaurants had to offer to their costumers since that was the category I've chosen.http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3161225152482525209#editor/target=post;postID=8578936745932992602 . As we were tough on the first day of class writing take time and a lot of thinking organizing ideas and overall practice.