Week Fifteen to Finals Week

Pursuant to the syllabus, in lieu of a final exam, you are to use a web-based site creation application to create a digital portfolio of your writing from the semester. You may use any free web building and hosting application that allows for multiple webpages (e.g., Wix, Weebly, Wordpress, Tumblr, etc.). You may also Google “college student portfolios” for ideas and examples.

You will make your projects (along with their preliminary drafts, revisions, etc.) available on one site. The portfolio must include all major projects or the portfolio will not receive a passing grade. It is recommended that you work on this portfolio throughout the semester. Please do not wait until the last few weeks of class to begin this project.

You will create a portfolio that is aesthetically appealing, easily navigable, comprehensive, and applicable to the Course Outcomes (see syllabus) (herein “Outcomes”). Your audience is your instructor; your purpose is to argue (prove) that you have achieved the Outcomes.

Your portfolio should cohesively present a reflective argument as to how your work shows you have achieved the Outcomes. The portfolio and reflective statement should show how you learned and applied skills and knowledge about rhetoric and writing. You will need to make claims based on reasons and support those reasons with evidence.

Essentially, the assertion in the portfolio is: “Here are the skills and knowledge that I have learned this semester, and here’s the evidence that I have acquired these skills and this knowledge.” In your argument, you will marshal evidence to support your argument directly by featuring the work you have completed in this course. The evidence in the portfolio is crucial; you should draw on all sorts of sources you’ve developed throughout the semester as evidence. Materials you can use as evidence to support your argument may include (but is not limited to): in class activities/writing, class materials, peer revisions, drafts of major composition projects, reflective essays, and anything else that aided you in your learning. This means that the whole of your portfolio should equate to one reflective piece that addresses all of the Outcomes with snippets of your work as evidence.

STRUCTURED portfolio link (15 points)

To encourage students to begin working on the final portfolio before the end of the semester, I am requiring portfolio website creation early. By the end of Week Eight, you should have decided which platform (i.e., web application) you are going to use and have a site created with a static home page. You should also have at least the organizational structure (pages, navigation and menu; the pages can be empty of content at this point) of your site established. This means you will need to have reviewed the portfolio requirements and determined how best to present your work and proof of learning. You will "turn in" your link to the home/landing page of your STRUCTURED portfolio website by the end of Week Eight via a Google Form linked on the Week Eight page.

FINAL complete portfolio link (200 points)

By the last day of Finals Week, your final portfolio should be complete with all content and satisfying all assignment requirements. You will "turn in" your link to the home/landing page of your FINAL complete portfolio website by the last day of Finals Week via the this Google Form: FINAL Portfolio Links. If you do not submit your final completed portfolio link as instructed by this deadline, you will receive a 0 on this final portfolio assignment.

The rubric below will be used to grade your Final Portfolio.