ENGL 131 Portfolio Template: By paper (07/08)
Instructor: Catalyst Research Team

Description


The final assignment in ENGL 131: Introduction to Expository Writing is to create a portfolio of your work that demonstrates your achievement of the course outcomes. A portfolio is essentially an argument that uses artifacts to support a claim. The artifacts for this class include all documents you produced for each assignment sequence as well as any in-class assignments and any comments you received from instructor or peers. In creating an electronic portfolio, you are essentially creating a website to organize and display your portfolio contents.

Follow the instructions and select those documents that best represent your learning in ENGL 131. You will use the reflective comments sections of the portfolio to develop an argument about how your selected papers demonstrate the four outcomes of the course:
  1. To demonstrate an awareness of the strategies that writers use in different writing contexts.
  2. To read, analyze, and synthesize complex texts and incorporate multiple kinds of evidence purposefully in order to generate and support writing.
  3. To produce complex, analytic, persuasive arguments that matter in academic contexts.
  4. To develop flexible strategies for revising, editing, and proofreading writing.
Goals
The portfolio assignment targets course outcomes #1-3 in particular. You are asked to create a coherent and convincing argument about your learning in this course, drawing directly on your work for support. You are also asked to write in a new genre; in creating an electronic portfolio, you are creating a web page. You must consider not only the content of your argument, but also its visual representation on the page. As with other types of documents, you must make editorial and design decisions that clearly communicate your message and are appropriate for your audience.
Instructions
Your portfolio must include:
* One of the two major papers
* Four to six of the shorter assignments
* A developed argument that explains how the selected papers/assignments in your portfolio demonstrate the four outcomes of the course.
In addition, you will need to include all of the sequence-related work you were assigned in the course.
A portfolio that does not include all of the above will be considered incomplete. The portfolio is worth 70% of your final grade.

Creating a portfolio using the Catalyst Portfolio tool: Each page of your portfolio is separated into sections that divide the text. The documents you attach in each section will be aligned with that block of text (vertically or horizontally, depending on the layout you choose). You are encouraged to use the editing options within Portfolio and/or the guide to basic tags in HTML to give your portfolio a professional look and feel. The most important part of this assignment, however, is the strength and quality of your argument and its support.


This archive contains the following project pages:
1.  Title of Portfolio
2.  Paper #1
3.  Paper #2
4.  Paper #3
5.  Paper #4
6.  Paper #5
7.  Paper #6 (opt.)
8.  Paper #7 (opt.)
9.  Final Reflection