Final/Presentation Portfolio Assignment

“A writing portfolio consists of pieces of writing that represent a writer’s best work or most successful projects. Collected over time and across interests, a portfolio showcases a writer’s talent and effort and demonstrates his or her ability to make thoughtful choices about content and presentation. It is a final product meant to be shared with others – perhaps to be assessed by a teacher or trained evaluator, to be read by prospective employers, or to be enjoyed by friends or family.”

The purpose of your final/presentation portfolio is to show what you have learned and to convince an audience of your achievements, abilities, or talents. Quickly reread all of your memoirs and select the one that shows the most promise. Your job is to revise, edit, and polish this memoir to presentation quality. Along with the remainder of your portfolio, this polished memoir will become a significant portion of your final grade for the course. Decide what specific changes will improve our selected memoir and set up a schedule to allow yourself sufficient time to edit, proofread, and polish your selection for your portfolio.

You will also need to complete a reflective writing that will serve as your introduction to your portfolio. For complex activities such as writing, it is important to step back and evaluate your performance so that you can assess what you do well and need to improve. After you have spent some time reviewing your memoirs, including your drafts, write an introduction that evaluates the strengths of your work, your understanding of what you do well and what you still need to work on. You might want to try some of the following:

Discuss your best entry and why it is your best.

Detail the revisions you’ve made and the improvements and changes that you want readers to notice.

Demonstrate what your portfolio illustrates about you as a writer, student, and critical thinker.

Reflect on what you’ve learned about writing, reading, and sharing of

writing.

Portfolios are due on _____________________. No late portfolios will be accepted.

Make sure that all of our work is bound in a 2 or 3-prong folder (not a binder) and that it is organized in the following manner:

I. Introduction (Self-Reflective Essay)

II. Revision

A. Revision should be on tip followed by peer critique of revision, rough drafts.

B. Original memoir you wrote

III. All remainder of memoirs are next; these should be in numerical order except for revised memoir.

IV. IV. Reaction Essays #1 through 6 or 7

I will evaluate your portfolio by using the following grid:

Strong OK Weak

Content, insights, thinking

Genuine revision, substantive changes, not just editing

Organization, structure, guiding the reader

Language: sentences, working, voice

Mechanics: spelling, grammar, punctuation, proofing

Overall

Lani Uyeno