Portfolio Notes

Your portfolio serves two purposes; first you may witness your growth as a writer and a student over a semester; and, second, you will have all of your work for this semester assembled for future reference or use. To complete this task, you need to gather all of the work that you have generated in this class and assemble it in a two-inch, three-ring, hard sided binder. You must organize your portfolio in the following order, no exceptions:

1. Title page with Table of Contents
2. All drafts of Major Writing Projects—These should include the following materials for each project:

• a. All writing process work from your blog
• b. Any prewriting done for the project
• c. Rough Drafts
• d. Graded Draft (complete with instructor’s comments)

3. Written homework assignments (reader responses, vocabulary quizzes, etc)
4. Portfolio letter

Your portfolio must have a title page that includes a Table of Contents. The “TOC” will list the contents of your portfolio.

Section One is for your Writing Projects. You’ll need to turn in your prewriting work, a rough draft, the draft you turned into the instructor that was handed back to you with comments, and a revised copy of the project if applicable. You will need to write a brief introduction to this section as well. Reflect on your choices of topic, the process of the research, and the assembly of the paper, among other things.

Section Two will include all of the written homework. You will need to write a brief introduction to this section. Reflect on the readings, your responses, and the process in general.

Section Three will be a draft of your portfolio letter, in which you reflect on your growth as a writer, student, and citizen. You will be defending your portfolio as a whole entity and puzzling together where intersections in your learning occurred. You should have some definite examples and talking points throughout your letter, consider it an argument.