Monday, April 17, 2006

Portfolio Assignment


The purposes of the portfolio is to showcase the work you have done in this course and celebrate the progress you have made as a writer. To this end, your portfolio should have two parts:

  1. Two significantly revised assignments. There are two restrictions on how you may choose assignments to revise: at least one assignment must be a group assignment and at least one assignment must be a Unit Project. To significantly revise these assignments, you should plan to spend around 2 to 3 hours critically re-thinking the assignments. Simply fixing picture display problems or correcting spelling errors is not a significant revision. The feedback Ms. Morgan provided on your assignments can be a starting place for revision, but you may seek feedback from your groupmates, fellow classmembers, and friends. In addition, you should identify opportunities for revision on your own.
  2. An Address to Ms. Morgan discussing the changes in your process as a writer over the course of the semester. In this address, you may (but are not required) to discuss how collaborative authoring has changed your individual process, how using new media has shaped your conception of audience, or how you understand "writing as thinking". Of course, you may discuss the revisions you made in the portfolio assignments to develop your ideas. The Address may take on of the following formats:
  • a 500 word alphabetic letter (Images are optional.)
  • a 2-minute podcast
  • a 60 second digital video

You should spend between 1 1/2 and 2 hours prewriting, planning, composing, and revising the Address.

The portfolio will be graded using this rubric.

Both parts of the portfolio should be posted into your blog by 12:00pm on May 1. Links to all assignments must work for the portfolio to receive credit.

Those kind souls releasing their work should have a signed copy of the authorization form to Ms. Morgan by the last day of class, April 28.

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