Welcome to my e-portfolio, my name is Kate. This course has been transformative to say the least. I chose visual rhetoric to guide me through this course as I am an artist. As our assignments developed, I decided therefor to focus of the rhetoric of art. Later to this single painting you see here, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, and its pathos. When I was young, I loved to write creatively, however, technical writing has not been a strong suit. This class has taught me how I need to pay attention better, especially when I think I understand, it's so important to double check. Feedback has been my guiding star as I have learned how to be a better writer: to write more smoothly for an easier read, as well as ensuring a more cohesive and better structured paper. I have learned so much about Guernica and the town it was named after as well as the political dynamics going on during that time. When I first looked at the painting, I thought it was silly as it looked like a child drew it. It was not until my research that I could see it as others could, who revered it so. 

In that regard, writing and research are meaningful to me significantly so, as I have gained such tremendous knowledge and insight into not only the technical aspects of developing a research paper but also the history of a people and a time that I was unaware of.  I will take all of this knowledge into the future with a heightened scrutiny for accuracy and readability and put the student learning outcomes that i have achieved to guide me in the future as I have expectations to pursue a master's degree.