Portfolio Requirements

Zack De Piero
ENG 201 – Advanced Composition – Summer ’15

Portfolio

·      Hard copy due: Wednesday, August 20^th by 3pm (our last class)

·      E-portfolio option due: Friday, August 22^nd by 3pm

Revision Document

·      I want you to create a revision document that clearly details some of the most important decisions that you’ve made.  Consider: what changes did you make, and why did you make those changes?  How have those changes impacted your new, revised paper?  You are free to do this however you’d like, but take a look at this 4-column matrix for a suggestion.  Please examine 10 changes that you’ve made in substantial depth.

Text from my initial WP submission: (a phrase, sentence, paragraph, idea, move, punctuation, piece of evidence, etc.)	An observation or question I received from De Piero or a classmate:	The change(s) I made to what I initially wrote: (ie, the change[s] I made to column 1)	How this change impacts my paper:
	“Attack of the page-long paragraph!  Try to chop up your paragraphs into bites…”		..
	“What’s the connection between these two sentences?  How do these ideas connect?

Metacognitive Reflection (5-6 pages)

·      This is your chance to take me through your personal Advanced Composition journey.  What was the experience like for you—from reading to reading, assignment to assignment, draft to draft, lesson to lesson?  How has your approach to writing, thinking, and/or researching evolved?  What did studying this stuff mean to you?  Has your stance towards “writing” shifted or changed, and if so, how?  And why?

·      Not satisfied with those questions?  No problem!  Here are some additional questions that can guide your piece:

o   Think back to a previous time (last month, last quarter, high school, etc.): has your perspective on what writing is changed at all?  If so, how?  Do you now see anything differently?  (Including yourself as a writer?)  If so, what?  Explain!

o   What have you learned in ENG 201?  About the study of and practice with genres?  About rhetoric?  About writing processes?  How, exactly, did you learn what you learned?  What “worked” for you, and why?

o   How might you be able to apply what you’ve learned in Writing 2 to future writing, thinking, and/or researching contexts?

o   What does “genre awareness” mean to you?  What do you think about “moves”? 

o   What are some of your favorite strategies, tips, or tricks?  Why?

o   Did you have any difficulty processing any of our course concepts?  If so, could you speculate on how or why? 

o   What questions are you left with?  What didn’t quite “sit right” with you?  What hasn’t processed?

Submission

·      If you’re submitting an “old school” hard copy portfolio, you’ll need to turn it in during our last class meeting on August 20^th. 

·      If you’re creating an e-portfolio (online), you can submit it to me two days later—by August 22^nd.  Shoot me an email at zack.depiero@gmail.com and attach all the necessary documents, along with the link to your Weebly site.

·      Note: whichever option you choose, I need to see my comments on your final rough draft.  (Why?  So I can see if/how you addressed them!)  You may need to adjust your printing settings and/or convert your MS Word doc into a PDF (“inserted comments” appear in most PDF versions).  If this is a problem for any reason, let me know.