LR Final Portfolio

Final Portfolio Due (rolling deadline): online on Canvas anytime between the last day of our class and May 5th (by midnight.)

What is your purpose? To evaluate your development as a learner this semester in each of the Course Strands. You will request one grade, for the course, based on your overall evaluation.

Why? This course culminates in the LR Final Portfolio so that you have a chance to both explain and exercise the rhetorical skills you’ve developed over the semester. Your portfolio should be a persuasive demonstration of both what you’ve learned and how you’ve learned it, and it should justify the grade you request for the course.

Format Requirements: MLA style, size 12 Times New Roman font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, page numbers. Please double- and triple-check that your formatting matches MLA formatting.

Purpose: Reflection and revision are essential parts of this course and writing in general. The purpose of this assignment is to mark the writing progress you have made over the semester. For your final assignment, you will:

  1. Reflect on and showcase work from the semester
  2. Utilize revision techniques / show the benefits of multiple drafts:organization, thesis, topic sentences, transitions, etc.
  3. Create an organized, well-formatted, and professional portfolio.

Title page: Just keep it clean and easy to read. Have your name, date, class, assignment, etc.

Table of Contents: Titles / page numbers for each component.

 

Part 1: Reflection (1-2 pages):

Some framing questions to think about as you write your reflection: Why did you choose your selected writings? How do they show your successful accomplishment of the objectives of this course (refer to syllabus)? How has your view of academic, personal, and rhetorical writing changed over the semester? How will you utilize the knowledge from this course in your future academic and professional pursuits? How have our discussions of authorship impacted your understanding of writing? Don’t just answer the questions one by one, but construct a persuasive and compelling personal reflection.

Part 2: Analysis (minimum two pages. maximum eight pages)

In this section, you will analyze your writing, revisions, and blog posts, as well as my comments and feedback from your peers, as evidence of what you have learned in each of the Course Strands. You will also use the Dimensions of Learning to explain how you are learning. You’ll want to also include reasons and evidence in your analysis (absence record/completeness & timeliness of your written work, visits to office hours, use of other campus resources such as the library or the UWC). To do this, I recommend you select 3-4 short passages / paragraphs from your writing across the semester / textual artifacts to display your progress. Feel free to annotate, mark up, or otherwise describe, analyze, and situate your choices.

Part 3: Assessing your performance (maximum two pages, not including any postscript)

In this section, you will explain which Grade Criteria most closely describe your performance in the class to date. You may mix criteria from different grade ranges, but you will conclude by requesting a single grade. You may use a plus or minus. You may also include as a postscript (PS) any other comments you’d like me to see at this time.

You may want to look at the assignment sheet for the LR Midterm to help you get started.

NB on Grades: Remember, your midterm grade does not factor into the grade you request on the final. However, you should consider the comments and grade you received on the midterm when you calculate your request for the final. How much have you improved? How specifically have you learned and improved between the midterm and the final? I will either agree with or revise your grade request.

Your Final Portfolio should include:

  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Reflection
  • Analysis of Writing, using evidence and reasons
  • Grade request

If any of these pieces are missing, it will count against your final grade. All documents should be placed in a single document (preferably a PDF) in the order you outline in your Table of Contents. This digital portfolio should also showcase your professionalism, so make sure everything has been proofread multiple times.