Remember to swing by LA 102 tomorrow any time from 11:45 – 12:15 to pick up your portfolio grading sheet. In addition to telling you your portfolio scores (with a few comments from me), these evaluation forms will also give you your final grade in the course. I am not allowed to disclose your grades via email, but I will be posting your portfolio scores to Engrade tomorrow afternoon.
If you can’t meet at that time, be sure to email me to schedule an alternative. I’ll be in town until Thursday. I will also be scanning your grade sheets and placing them on Google documents.
I hope all of your final tests and projects are going well! See you tomorrow.
Reminder: your final portfolios are due by Friday at 12:10. Here’s your final Writ 101 to-do list:
Revise reflective portfolio introduction into final draft. Remember the key things to include: what major changes you made to each inquiry project, where those changes are located (page & paragraph number) & why you think they made an impact, along with what strength(s) your portfolio showcases.
Finalize all portfolio revisions for the PAA, Op-Ed, and LPE.
Submit all portfolio materials by Friday at 12:10 PM. Be sure to include all required materials:
Table of contents (if submitted on Google docs) or navigation post (if submitted on a blog)
Reflective introduction/letter/memo
Your 3 revised inquiry projects
3 invention artifacts (1 per unit)
3 drafting or revision artifacts (1 per unit)
Graded copies of your originally-submitted inquiry projects (the papers you turned in to me that I left marginal comments on)
Evaluation forms from each originally-submitted inquiry project
Be sure to look at the checklist, rubric, and assignment sheet before you submit your portfolio just to double check that it’s ready to go!
We will not be meeting in person on Friday since you are all submitting your portfolios online. If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to email me! And if you need to schedule an alternate time to meet with me and pick up your grade, also email me. Come by LA 102 on Tuesday, May 10 any time from 11:45 – 12:15 to pick up your portfolio grading sheet and your final grade.
Good luck with all of your projects and papers and exams and most of all your portfolios–I can’t wait to read them and be wowed by all of your work. If you need a little pick me up, here are my favorite motivational videos:
If you’re composing your portfolio on Google docs, a few pointers:
Your portfolio should be contained in a new collection within your Writ 101 folder–don’t just have a bunch of artifacts floating around the Writ 101 folder.
Google docs automatically puts your collections & documents in alphabetical order. If you want to arrange it in a specific way, then you can put letters in front the names to change the order (A., B., C., etc.). Then up on the top, select “Title” as the sorting method, and it’ll show up in order. (I’ll also just open up your materials in the order you designate with the letters and in your Table of Contents).
Speaking of the Table of Contents: I’d like you to make one because it’ll ensure that I read your portfolio in the order you intend it to be read. It also acts as a sort of checklist for you to ensure that you’re submitting all of the required materials (and a quick way for me to verify that, too). It should let me know what order you’ve arranged the materials in and what artifacts are contained within each sub-folder, if you have sub-folders.Your TOC will look like a list. Here’s a sample (of course yours will differ based on what you name each sub-folder and how you organize your artifacts, but you get the gist):
A. Table of Contents
B. Reflective Letter
C. Invention Artifacts
1. PAA invention work
2. Op-Ed invention work
3. Life Place invention work
And so on. Note that under the invention artifact folder I designated the order of the materials within by numbering them. Just make sure that you list all of your materials in the order you’d like me to look over them, and that it’s clear where everything is.
Be sure that everything is very clearly labeled with your name and the artifact title. It’s especially key that you clearly label your various drafts. Make sure the absolute final draft is labeled “Portfolio Draft.”
Make sure your folder is shared with me. If it’s not placed in your Writ 101 folder, or you don’t invite me to view the folder, I can’t see it.
For any troubleshooting, be sure to check out the Google docs help forums. You can also email me with any questions!
Compose a draft of your 500-750 word reflective portfolio introduction/letter/memo and place it in your Portfolio Group folders, labeled “Your Name Portfolio Intro.” Remember that the key here is to highlight the most important changes you made to your papers, and to be very specific about them–give me page and paragraph numbers, and clearly state what was revised and why–what important rhetorical impact it had on your paper. You should also identify the strength(s) your portfolio showcases. Other things you might address: why you organized your portfolio the way you did, why you chose the invention work you did, why you elected to post your portfolio on a blog or on Google docs, etc. If you need help thinking of what writing strength your portfolio demonstrates, look over the portfolio criteria on the rubric to jog your brain! See this sample intro for more help. (You might notice that in the third paragraph of the sample Carly explains how she arranged her portfolio. You don’t need to discuss that in your intro, but you can if you want.)
Continue revisions on LPE, Op-Ed, and PAA as necessary.
Before each original paragraph, in red, list the major issues contained in that first passage. What’s wrong that you’re aiming to fix in your revision?
Now turn to the revised passage. Select the biggest change you made, and, in a comment bubble, write about what you hope this revision is accomplishing–what one of those issues it’s addressing. Is it clarifying something for the reader? Bringing in more research? Better explaining a quote? etc. (One per revised paragraph–so, 2 total)
Before each revised paragraph, in red, write one question for your portfolio group. Here are a few suggestions if you’re blanking:
Are the revisions I’ve made noticeable?
Are my revisions really helping with the major issues I listed?
Are there any changes that you still recommend after reading my revised paragraph?
Here are you assignments due on Monday by 12:10 PM.
Finish your last blog entry if not completed in class [see prompt here].
LPE diagnoses & prescriptions. Compose this as an entry in your FJ. Re-read your LPE. Look over my feedback, from the marginal comments to the evaluation form. Using my responses and your own reflection, “diagnose” your LPE. What are the three major issues that you need to address in your revision of the LPE? Be specific. After diagnosing your LPE, write a brief “prescription” that proposes how you’ll address the issues in each paper. Again, be clear & specific. Make it clear that you know what the major issues in your papers are, and that you have smart ideas about how to fix them. By the end you should have 3 issues & proposed solutions for the LPE.
Revise LPE using your diagnosis. By Monday, you need to post a revised portion of the essay to your portfolio group folder. In this revision document, you should include TWO fully-revised paragraphs from the essay. Try to pick paragraphs that you still have your questions or doubts about; ones that have been revised substantially; ones that, in the first draft, embodied some of the major issues in the paper–that way, your group can help you evaluate if your revisions are accomplishing all they need to. They do not have to be back-to-back paragraphs. In your revision document (labeled “Your Name LPE revisions” and posted in the group folder), you must include the original version of each paragraph, then the revised version pasted right below it.
Continue revisions on Op-Ed and PAA as necessary. Next week you’ll be writing your reflective introduction, so don’t save all your major revising for then–you’ll need to know what major changes you’re making in each paper so that you can highlight them in your intro
You’ll be making notations on your revised Op-Ed paragraphs like we did on Wednesday.
Before each original paragraph, in red, list the major issues contained in that first passage. What’s wrong that you’re aiming to fix in your revision?
Now turn to the revised passage. Select the biggest change you made, and, in a comment bubble, write about what you hope this revision is accomplishing–what one of those issues it’s addressing. Is it clarifying something for the reader? Bringing in more research? Better explaining a quote? etc. (One per revised paragraph–so, 2 total)
Before each revised paragraph, in red, write one question for your portfolio group. Here are a few suggestions if you’re blanking:
Are the revisions I’ve made noticeable?
Are my revisions really helping with the major issues I listed?
Are there any changes that you still recommend after reading my revised paragraph?
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For your last blog post, you’ll be revisiting your very first entry! In that first prompt, I asked you to answer a few questions about the blog genre. In your last entry, you’ll be considering how your answers to these questions have changed after blogging over the past semester. Read over the original questions and answer these additional ones (italicized below) to reflect on your blog.
Have you ever blogged before? Read blogs? Describe your experience with/knowledge of the blogosphere. How has blogging for Writ 101 expanded your knowledge of blogging in general?
From what you know, what genre expectations are there for blogs? (In other words, when readers head to their favorite blogs, what kinds of writing style and content do they expect to see?) How have you incorporated these general genre expectations into your own posts?
How might the blog genre expectations be different for our course?How has your knowledge of the blog genre changed over the course of this semester? How have you adjusted to the blog genre?
How do you anticipate that your own writing will change as you publish content that I, your peers, and others on the internet community can freely read? What’s the difference between your blog posts & your FJ or RJ entries? How does an expanded audience (your peers & the whole internet vs. just me) change how you approach a writing assignment?
