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My name is Erica Avesian. My friends call me the next Carrie Bradshaw. I’m a senior at the University of Michigan pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in Communication Studies and a minor in Writing. I invite you to explore my portfolio and learn about my experience and love of writing for a variety of platforms, both print and digital. My “Why I Write” essay will give you a clear picture of why I love this form of expression so much by taking you through my different writing experiences as a journalist, student, blogger, and freelancer. I also reflect on where I plan to be as a future writer.

I’ve developed as a writer during my four years in college and now I write with more creativity and emotion. Instead of simply following the rubric and checking off the boxes, I complete each assignment with a larger purpose in mind because I feel that each essay or article could be valuable in more than one way. For example, I’ve found it to be very therapeutic to write my capstone project personal memoir. Instead of going through the motions of brainstorming, writing a thesis, and putting together three bland body paragraphs, I always explore how my writing projects can be taken to the next level. I often show potential employers some of my academic writing projects during job interviews which is why I have my career aspirations in mind when completing each writing assignment.

This writing portfolio is organized by genre and subject. View the about section to discover who I am. Take a look at the writing feed to see all of my papers. Explore the academic writing section to see my work from Communications, English, and Writing classes. Journey to the professional writing section to see the work I’ve done as a marketing and sales assistant, contributing writer, and editorial intern. Click on the multimedia section to view some of my websites and videos. Finally, go to the reflective writing section to see what I think of my own writing projects. You will see an introduction at the beginning of each piece that explains the assignment and includes some reflection. Please click on the links highlighted in grey to view some of my work and various websites I’ve written for. I incorporated images into my portfolio to add some visual appeal.

Through various jobs, internships, extracurricular activites, and classes, I have grown as a writer and creative storyteller. This portfolio is designed to showcase my best professional, academic, multimedia, and reflective writing pieces. Each artifact is unique and represents a different facet of my writing expertise from argumentative research-based essays to humorous creative non-fiction papers. As a whole, each artifact comes together to express my personality and interests.

I’ve taken what I’ve learned about writing here at the University of Michigan and applied it to writing projects outside of the classroom. I’ve also done the opposite by keeping in mind my career goals and incorporating lessons learned at various internships into my academic writing. I chose to highlight work that represents who I am as an individual and a complex writer. You’ll notice some academic essays about the magazine industry and then see actual print and online magazine articles I’ve written for StyleLine Magazine and Her Campus. You’ll also see a range of creative non-fiction pieces which start in my first-year writing requirement course, appear in my English 325 class, and culminate with my final project, a personal memoir structured as a series of short stories that contain different life lessons. I hope that my personal essays resonate with you and that you can learn something from my life stories and reflections just as I did. I’ve included blog posts and PR/marketing materials that I’ve developed during internships in order for you to see how my style and tone changes with different writing assignments, audiences, and purposes.

Take yourself back to your senior year of college and reminisce on all of the good times because as you enter my world of writing, you’re also entering the world of a fashion-obsessed college girl who loves writing about personal experiences, the media, and the college lifestyle. Discover what it’s like to walk in my shoes as you look inside my writing repertoire. I hope that you explore, laugh at, learn from, and love every single word.

With Love,

Erica Nicole Avesian

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