The largest single portion of the grade in ENG 099 by far, the final portfolio represents a culmination of the student's writing through the term. As such, it needs to display that an ample amount of time, attention, and care were taken in its creation.
The final portfolio, once compiled, is to typed and appropriately formatted (according to the directions found under "Helpful Information for TCI Students" as "General Paper Formatting Instructions") and needs to contain the following items in order:
Title Page- this must give the student's name, ID number, course, section, term, date of submission, and a title; please be more imaginative and descriptive than simply "Final Portfolio"
Table of Contents- list in order the items in the portfolio which come after the Table, giving page numbers for each
Summaries- five of these, with all necessary information
Descriptive Paragraph- from the paragraphs written during class
Narrative Paragraph- from the paragraphs written during class
Process Paragraph- from the paragraphs written during class
Causal Paragraph- from the paragraphs written during class
Illustrative Definition- revised from the essays written during class
Contrast- revised from the essays written during class
Summative Statement- a one- to three-paragraph statement evaulating the student's experience during the class
An example of a portfolio appears as an attachment, below. Please use it as a model.
The assignment, if submitted in a timely fashion (either in hard copy at the beginning of class on the due date or via email as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf attachment), will be graded based upon 1) completion (i.e., all of the parts of the assignment are present); 2) adherence to standards (all parts of the assignment are done as they should be, such as the essays being of sufficient length); and 3) adherence to the conventions of standard edited American academic English, as noted in the course textbook and in comments on submitted work throughout the term. Each category will be assigned a grade, A+ through 0, and the average of those category grades will be recorded as the total assignment grade.
Any and all information deriving from outside sources must be acccounted for appropriately. Acceptable standards for doing so appear on the Purdue University Online Writing Lab for more information regarding those standards, here; be sure to follow MLA rules. FAILURE TO ACCOUNT FOR SOURCES IS PLAGIARISM AND WILL BE DEALT WITH HARSHLY.