ENG 106: Composition 2

Lesson 13: Portfolio Preparation
Week: April 14-20, 2003

Place: Dial 147

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to do each of the following:

Select appropriate essays to include in your portfolio.
Revise these essays to submit your best work in your final portfolio.
Package these essays in an attractive, functional final portfolio.
Define relevant terms.

Assignments

Revise the essays that you wish to include in your final portfolio and bring them to class on Tuesday and Thursday

Activities

Think Fast: What skills have you mastered or nearly mastered in this course? Where do you still need to improve?

Presentation: Portfolio Preparation (Professor Canada)

Cooperative Learning: Trade one of your essays with a partner. Discuss strengths and areas for improvement.

Discussion: During this time, we will discuss the insights and questions that have emerged during our “Think Fast” exercise, my presentation, and cooperative learning.

Workshop: Using what you have learned this semester, begin revising one of your essays.

Think Again: Brainstorm a list of specific strategies you will use to prepare your final portfolio.

Conferences: During these one-on-one conferences, I will review some of your writing, orally quiz you on lesson objectives, and field your questions.

Announcements: We will wrap up this lesson with announcements regarding upcoming lessons, as well as other relevant subjects.

Terms

Make sure you know the meaning and significance of the following term:

portfolio

Resources

The syllabus for this course contains details on your final portfolio.

Introduction

In our last lesson, we looked at some effective strategies for revision. In this lesson, we turn to preparing your entire portfolio.

Discussion

Portfolios

To demonstrate their abilities, many professional artists, journalists, and educators maintain something called a portfolio. In this portfolio, which may be a folder or large carrying case, they store samples of their work—logos they have designed, for example, or news articles they have written. Then, when they go to a job interview, they can do more than simply talk about their skills. They can show what they have done. In this course, you, too, will build a portfolio, which will contain three of the four essays you have written this semester. Specifically, it must include your evaluation, your causal analysis, and either your definition or your proposal. This portfolio, which you will publish on the World Wide Web and submit it to me in printed form, should demonstrate the best written and visual communication you are capable of creating. After I grade it, I will pass along the hard copy to two of my fellow professors, who will also evaluate it, assigning it a grade of “P” if it is “passing” material and “NP” if it is “not passing” material. Please note that you should submit the hard copy in a 3-ring binder and include notes and photocopies for all of the assignments you are submitting.

Conclusion

In this lesson, we have begun preparing your entire portfolio for submission. In out next lesson, we will look at oral argument.