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Introduction
Your grade for the course will be based on a Portfolio you submit at the end of the semester. The portfolio will consist of a collection of your writings produced for this class. The core of your portfolio will consist of a number of required submissions, but you will also be permitted to submit a number of other writings that you may present to best demonstrate your growth and achievement.You will not submit everything you wrote, but rather a selection of writings. The rationale for selecting certain pieces rather than some others has to do with what kind of image you want to present of yourself. Your portfolio should consist of what you think is your best work. For example, you might submit drafts to a particular project to demonstrate how your revision process grew during the course of the project. You might also include several e-mail messages or conference entries that you believe demonstrate your ability to master the particular rhetorical form. Or, you may wish to submit your reactions to certain readings and/or reactions to information discovered during one of your investigations.
Required Submissions
All of the *Assignments
*A final self-evaluative essay: a reflection, up to 5 pages, whereby you assess your growth and achievement and make a case for a grade using evidence from your portfolio. In some ways it is the most "real" and important piece of writing you may do this semester because it is a piece of argumentative writing that has some real consequence. A well-written and developed case in support of your grade will have a great deal of influence over what grade you actually receive in the course.
Optional Materials
The purpose with these is to demonstrate a number of areas of strength you may have developed during the course. The idea here is not quantity but quality. Using several of the below could demonstrate your ability to read critically (the required readings and drafts), to contribute substantially to the communal knowledge of the class, or to demonstrate your conscious attempts to be an engaged, active learner.
Presentation of Portfolio
*Option A: Traditional hard-copy portfolio
With this option you would hand in a pocket folder with a collection of
printed copies of the required and optional writings noted above. You must
also include a title page with your name, student ID, the course name and
section number, and the date. In addition, you should also include a table
of contents.
*Option B: On Disk
Because of the nature of the course, this is the preferred option, though
which option you use will not have a bearing on your grade for the course.
Using this option will require that you manage your electronic texts throughout
the semester, finally placing your "collected works" on a disk
to hand in. For those of you that are more motivated, we can discuss creating
a portfolio to submit via the World Wide Web. You will be given extra credit
for this since you will have to become a "webmaster," learning
how to format your writings using hypertext markup language (HTML) and
developing a home page.
Criteria for Success
I will give feedback on each of the following: