Your portfolio will display selections of your work this semester and will provide reflective commentary that explains choices, highlights learning, and explains revisions. On the "Requirements" page, you will find directions for what work needs to appear in your portfolio, what those pieces should show, and how they might be arranged.
To begin, a strong portfolio makes the case for what you’ve learned… not what you’ve done. A mediocre portfolio focuses on displaying the completion of work. An “A” portfolio has a heavy focus on reflection and on showing that you've worked, engaged, revised and learned. It can use terminology, use specific examples from personal work, make specific references to readings, discuss specific revisions made and provide explanations.
I don't want a general discussion of the course or general assertions about what you learned. I want you to go through the work you've done, dig in, and show me that you learned.
This is a project that should create a picture of your semester through selection and, most importantly, reflection. This means that, as you revise and complete work, you should go ahead and begin assembling your portfolio so that it doesn’t overwhelm you at the end of the semester. Portfolios will be due at the end of the semester. Specific due dates (as always) will be available on Moodle and covered in class.
Below are a few key concepts from this semester that your portfolio should show nuanced understanding of the following terms and how they relate to or appear in your own work:
To begin, a strong portfolio makes the case for what you’ve learned… not what you’ve done. A mediocre portfolio focuses on displaying the completion of work. An “A” portfolio has a heavy focus on reflection and on showing that you've worked, engaged, revised and learned. It can use terminology, use specific examples from personal work, make specific references to readings, discuss specific revisions made and provide explanations.
I don't want a general discussion of the course or general assertions about what you learned. I want you to go through the work you've done, dig in, and show me that you learned.
This is a project that should create a picture of your semester through selection and, most importantly, reflection. This means that, as you revise and complete work, you should go ahead and begin assembling your portfolio so that it doesn’t overwhelm you at the end of the semester. Portfolios will be due at the end of the semester. Specific due dates (as always) will be available on Moodle and covered in class.
Below are a few key concepts from this semester that your portfolio should show nuanced understanding of the following terms and how they relate to or appear in your own work:
- Literacy
- Discourse Community
- Writing Process
- Feedback
- Revision vs. Editing
- Writing Situation (Rhetorical Situation)
- Writing to Learn
- Rhetorical Awareness
- Inquiry
- Genre