In my portfolio, I will introduce the three units we have focused on this semester. Unit one was our rhetorical analysis unit where we explored and analyzed various writings from authors like Lippi-Green, Cran, Macneil and Tan. We explored the role of language in our daily life and the rhetorical aspects that these authors use to narrate their ideas on language. We chose one author and his/her writing to analyze and to show how their use of rhetoric solidified their argument. I selected Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” to analyze. For unit two, we focused on a researched-based argument and essay. For my argument, I chose to explore how accent discrimination negatively impacts the hiring process for those who did not learn English as a first language. For this assignment, we found several scholarly sources, analyzed, summarized and paraphrased them and included them in our essays to support our arguments. For unit three, we were tasked with creating a visual argument, through the use of multimodal and rhetorical tactics. We chose a topic to argue, mine being the role of wealth inequality and the unfair treatment of those who live in poverty versus those who live in better standing or come from a place of privilege. We used images and rhetoric in order to establish our visual argument, and we chose a poem to help support our argument further. I took a quote from my poem, as well, in order to further solidify its relevance in the topic and strengthen my argument. We also explored the idea of what writing is, and how our perception of writing changed over the course of the semester.