Format/Order
Headings for your Table of Contents
Cover Letter, Permission to Use, Revised Essay 1, Works Cited, Revised Essay 2, Document/Works Cited
The goal of the Cover Letter
A description of how the Portfolio supports your development and learning as a writer. Where you make your claims and the Portfolio provides evidence. How you have achieved the outcomes, what you have accomplished this semester, and to reflect on your strengths and areas of revision
Portfolio Requirements
FOR FULL POINTS: The writer includes 1) a Table of Contents, 2) the Revision Cover Letter, 3) the Literature Review: Investigating the Conversation (including Works Cited) and 4) either the Discourse Analysis OR the Summary and Analysis (including Works Cited when required by the assignment guidelines).
Information Literacy
FOR FULL POINTS: The Revision Portfolio is highly proficient at meeting the Information Literacy Outcome: Identify relevant information and questions in relation to audience and purpose; Understand the strengths and limitations of a variety of primary and secondary sources; Examine the value of multiple perspectives and personal authority while accounting for individual bias in reading and composing texts; Begin to synthesize conversations and texts to engage in critical inquiry; Develop academic integrity by accurately summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and citing a variety of texts and perspectives.
Inward-Looking
How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts do you like/dislike? What parts were enjoyable/frustrating? What does your cover letter reveal about you as a learner?
Required Word Count for Cover Letter
500-700 Words
Introductory Paragraph; what do you include? Give me an example!
A brief description of yourself as a writer and your development over the semester.
Revision Cover Letter
FOR FULL POINTS: The writer includes 1) a brief introduction describing them as a writer, 2) an introduction to each of the two revised essays in the Revision Portfolio, 3) a description of how they met each of the four English 1010 Outcomes, and 4) a conclusion addressing how they will continue working on their writing in future contexts. The cover letter is approximately 500-700 words.
FOR FULL POINTS: The Revision Portfolio is highly proficient at meeting the Composing Processes Outcome: Organize ideas, claims, and support according to audience and purpose; Collaborate with other writers on drafts and revision; Apply collaborator feedback to revise for a purpose; Revise to learn more about a topic or problem; Identify opportunities for continued revision and inquiry.
Revision
Compare/contrast your beginning essay to your revised essay. What changes can you see? Are they listed in your cover letter? How did those changes come about? How do you feel about those changes? What does that tell you about yourself and how you learn?
Unnecessary Things to Include in Your Portfolio
Original Essay 1, Original Essay 2, Original Writing Reflections, Heading Information
Introduction to your Essays; what do you include? Give me an example!
What did you learn about your writing through these essays? What's strong? How did you revise them? How might you still revise them if you had time?
Timeliness
FOR FULL POINTS: The Revision Portfolio is submitted by the due date.
CL1
FOR FULL POINTS: Demonstrates an adequate ability to write, using visual communication as appropriate, by focusing on a purpose, engaging with texts or source material, and adapting the written work to a variety of audiences.
Outward Looking
Did you do your portfolio the way other people did theirs? What is the one thing you/your classmates particularly notice when you/they look at your work? What might people learn about who you are by looking at this piece?
Where to put the permission to use the anonymous portfolio
At the end of the Cover Letter, bolded OR as its own heading after the Cover Letter
Course Outcomes; what are they and how did you meet them? Give me an example!
Address at least one concept under each of the four outcomes in your letter and talk about how the revision/your growth as a writer is reflective of that outcome
Rhetorical Awareness
FOR FULL POINTS: The Revision Portfolio is highly proficient at meeting the Rhetorical Awareness Outcome: Focus on a purpose appropriate to the writer’s rhetorical situation; Identify and compose for a variety of audiences and contexts; Analyze and respond appropriately to different rhetorical situations, including as outlined in assignment prompts; Identify and analyze rhetorical appeals, including ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos; Understand and rhetorically negotiate the conventions that govern genres, formats, grammar, mechanics, and the use and citation of sources.
Due Date
April 25th at 11:59 PM
Personal Grading
If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about this piece? What grade would you give it? Why? In what ways did your work meet/not meet the standards?
The content and order of your Portfolio
Table of Contents, Cover Letter, Permission to Use, Revised Literature Review (Works Cited), Revised Discourse Analysis (Document) OR Revised Summary and Analysis (Works Cited). SUBMITTED AS ONE FILE
Conclusion; what do you include? Give me an example!
Address what you will continue to work on as a writer in future writing contexts
Critical Thinking
FOR FULL POINTS: The Revision Portfolio is highly proficient at meeting the Critical Thinking Outcome: Recognize the relationships among language, knowledge, and power in texts and research; Use writing, reading, and dialogue for inquiry, learning, and communicating; Identify and respond to problems or questions in texts; Analyze rhetorical patterns and conversations across multiple texts; Integrate personal authority within a larger conversation. Evidence of critical thinking is found in the Revision Cover Letter, the Investigating the Conversation Literature Review, and one additional essay.
Amount of Points for the Final
200
Forward Looking
What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again? What's the one thing that you have seen in your classmates' work or process that you would like to try in your next piece? What might you want next year's teacher to know about you (what things you're good at/what things you might want more help with)?