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Your Portfolio

Students will not receive grades on individual assignments. Rather, you will put everything you write into your portfolio for evaluation at the end of the semester.

Definition of portfolio
A portfolio is a hard binder with the metal rings that you spent the fifth grade snapping open and shut. Portfolios are the pachyderm of writing technology: you can throw them over the Lodge overpass and your written work will be preserved. Alternate names for portfolio include binder, trapper, and trapper keeper.

Not so fast
This course is designed to force you to engage in the process of writing. Here, process means that you have to do multiple drafts of each assignment and highlight your revisions from draft to draft. Specifically, you are asked to create and receive feedback on four (4) drafts before you put each assignment in your portfolio.
1. a draft for self-evaluation.
2. a draft for peer evaluation.
3. a draft for my feedback.
4. a draft for evaluation by a member of the community you’re writing for or about.
We’ll discuss specific protocol (i.e., steps for doing and documenting it) for the draft evaluations in further detail in class on Wednesday, September 13.

Structuring your portfolio
Place the assignments in your portfolio in numerical sequence (i.e., Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Assignment 3, Assignment 4….). Every assignment should have its own section and be separated from other assignments by a divider. Dividers have tab labels for handy reference.

Each section should be structured as followed:
1.draft 1 3. draft 2 5. Draft 3 7. Draft 4
2.self evaluation form 4. peer evaluation 6. My feedback 8. community eval.
9. “final” draft (quote marks emphasize the problematic myth of “final” drafts).

Porfolios without binders
Will be eaten.