Final Portfolio-Writing Beyond the Academy Purpose: The final portfolio offers students the opportunity to learn how

to revise, reshape, and re-imagine their writing and demonstrate that they can articulate these changes. Assignment: This final project is a gathering of your work this semester and ultimately an argument about your writing. Your job is to demonstrate that you can change your writing if you choose to and that you know what changes you have made and why you have made them. Also, it should demonstrate that you understand rhetoricthat writing must change according to audience and genre. You must include at least three documents from our course work that demonstrate both your best work and evidence that you understand revision. ote! some students made significant changes to their work before turning it in for a grade. You can use early drafts to demonstrate your understanding of the need for revision. Portfolio ocuments:

!able of "ontents#$avigation Bar " need to be able to navigate through your project. #lease indicate clearly original drafts and final revisions. %etter of &eflection This the most important part of the portfolio and should be treated as an argument paper. You are arguing for and demonstrating change and$or growth in your writing. %or some of you, the argument will be about a radical reali&ation you have had, while others will discuss more subtle changes in style' You should discuss what you learned about genre in each different assignment A$ what you changed as you revised' This paper should be clear and organi&ed and use evidence from your papers, your peer comments, and my comments to support your argument. %inally, choose your best paper$te't from the semester and e'plain ()Y it is your best work. "omments on &evision %or each paper that you revise, you must include a clear discussion of the revisions you made. You can put this at the beginning of the final copy like a (riter*s +emo or create a separate document. &evised Papers %or papers you choose to revise, you must include, at least, the original draft with my comments in addition to any earlier drafts, peer reviews, etc, that demonstrate your revision work.

(edium You will upload an electronic portfolio or provide a -./. This can be an e'tensive (ord 0ocument or #0% file. "t can also be a webpage or blog with clear navigation. )rade: 1verall 2uality of the Three 0ocuments 2uality of the .eflection letter and ability to articulate revision practices and understanding of writing re3uirements of various genres. .evisions! both the e'tent of the revisions and ability to articulate the changes