Final Portfolio Revision Project Prompt

Purpose

This other component of the Final Portfolio will demonstrate your competency in revising a work of writing and articulating the rationale you employed in pursuit of that revision. Because writing is a process, and it may often take several drafts of to achieve our goals for writing, this portion of the Final Portfolio is especially important for demonstrating your competency with revision as part of the writing process.

This Revision Project will be comprised of two related documents: your Revised Project AND your Reflective Essay.

Writing Prompt: Revised Project

As part of the Final Portfolio, you will be revising either Writing Project One or Writing Project Two based on feedback you received on that draft and your own ideas about what would make the essay better.

As you revise the essay, you will have the opportunity to change the essay to fit your own argumentative goals—you no longer need to be concerned at all about “fitting the prompt.” You might choose to re-frame the question or purposes of the original writing assignment to “make it your own.” This might include changing the focus, adding in research or other source work to enhance your argument, or completely re-imagining the genre of the work you wrote in. I am open to your ideas!

Your revised project is open to your own ideas for the essay; revise the argument to your own interests. How can you make your argument better? What new goals or practices would benefit your argument?

Writing Prompt: Reflective Essay

To accompany your revised writing project, you will write a reflective essay in which you identify what revision work you have done and why.

In addition to describing the revisions that you made in preparing the essay, you may also choose to reflect on your writing process and what you have learned through conducting this revision.

Your reflective essay on your revisions will help guide my reading of your Revised Project, especially if you changed the purposes or goals of the essay as you made it your own.

Audience and Significance

You should indicate your audience for your revised project—who do you see as the reader of this piece and/or where would you envision it being published?

I am your primary audience for the Reflective Essay—you should be writing to me about the revisions you made and why you found them effective.

Submission

The work for the Revision Project is largely self-driven. I will not collect any drafts or expect you to post any of that revision work prior to the final draft submission. You are welcome to talk with me about that revision work in conferences, during class, or especially during office hours.

The Final Draft of your Revision Project should be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. PST on Monday, December 12. You are more than welcome to submit this project prior to that deadline.

Feedback and Grading

The Revision Project will be assessed solely by me. While the assessment of that work will primarily be based on the revised project, the reflective essay will inform how I read that work, so the process and rationale that you document for that process may help to raise the assessed score of that work.

As I consider the overall Final Portfolio Grade, more weight will be given to your performance on Writing Project Four, but the grade assigned for the Portfolio will reflect your performance on all aspects of the portfolio—that is, your Revision Project score will also be a part of your Final Portfolio grade.

As mentioned in the Writing Project Four prompt, we will collectively determine and vote on the percent distribution of WP4 and the revision project in determining the Final Portfolio grade. This weighting will reflect the majority vote result of the class.

I will calculate the grades of your Writing Project Four Final Draft AND your Revision Project to determine the Final Portfolio grade. Final Course Grades will be assigned based on the terms of the Grading Contract. That is, your combined grade for the Final Portfolio will determine your final course grade in relation to your standing with the Grading Contract.

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