ENG 102/ASU Spr 19

Portfolio
Overview: ​The portfolio assignment is designed to showcase your understanding of multimodal
rhetoric and web design, and to help you consider your personal and academic achievements in
a real-world, academic context. Websites like these are used by content creators to (1) keep
track of their progress in a given field of study, (2) reflect on their developing achievements in
that field, and (3) to provide concrete evidence of those achievements to future instructors,
mentors, employers, publishers, etc. Therefore, the purpose of this assignment is multi-faceted.
In its several parts, you will:

● represent the best of the work you’ve done as a composer, reader, and critical thinker
● remediate that work for a web use using multiple modes of communication (textual, visual,
digital, etc.)
● reflect on your accomplishments and how they display your achievement of ​WPA outcomes
and course goals

Required Elements of the Site

● Home
○ About the Author
○ About the Site
● Project 1
● Project 2
● Project 3
● Documentary
● Portfolio Reflection

Part 1. About the Author (author picture and biographical statement: (~150 words)
Directions:​ Write a biographical statement about yourself. Rather than highlighting your personal
and social life, the statement you compose should display your academic, work, and community
service experiences. Considering the context of this course, it would make sense to highlight
your skills as a reader, writer, and critical thinker.

Audience:​ Like other elements of your site, your author bio should appeal to an
academic/professional audience.

Form and Content​: This author bio should be placed in a page titled "About the Author".
Consider the following conventions as you compose/revise your author bio:

● Write about yourself in third-person (s/he). To achieve a more objective and formal tone,
describe yourself and your achievements the way someone else would.
● List your achievements in the following order: 1.) most recent-->past, 2.)
education-->interests-->work-->service, 3.) most significant-->least significant, etc.
● Focus on experiences related to your academic achievements and professional goals.
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Part 2. About the Site: (~150 words)

Directions​: Provide a statement that explains the purposes of your website, frames your content,
and orients readers to the organization of your website.

Audience:​ Like other elements of your site, your author bio should appeal to an
academic/professional audience.

Form and Content​: This site statement should be installed in a page titled "About the Site". You
may want to cover the following elements and questions:

● Purpose:​ Why am I crafting this website? What will its purpose be? What are my short and
long term goals for creating this website?
● Audience:​ For whom am I creating this website? What are my different audiences'
expectations? (For each imagined audience/context, consider the appropriate tone of voice,
formatting conventions, level of formality, diction, etc.)
● Context:​ How and where will I use my Website? (i.e. circumstances and situations:
interviews, applications, advising, mentorships, classes, personal/professional development,
self/performance evaluation, etc.). What are the parameters and boundaries determined by
your audiences and purposes?
● Structure & Form:​ How will I organize my website? Which organizing principle makes the
most sense given my purpose and audience?

Part 3. Writing Projects and Remediation

Each of the major assignments written this semester for class should be installed into your
writer's website. Each project should have its own page that is clearly labelled in the navigation
bar. These revised versions of your essays should demonstrate your consideration of the
course material including readings and concepts such as genre, audience, and rhetorical
situation. The design of each page should also exemplify your understanding of digital
communication and how image, sound and video can be rhetorically influential and persuasive.

Each writing project should include the following elements (either in their own subpages or in
the project main page):
● A project introduction (i.e. a revised “abstract” suitable for readers on the web)
● The polished draft (full text) and the rough draft (if available)
● Revision Statement (if applicable)
○ ~200 word statement: What did you change? Why? How does your revision
constitute an improvement of your original draft?
● Assignment details

Remediated essays should abide by the conventions for web reading and formatting (e.g.
single-spaced, no indentation, use of hyperlinks, video, audio, and images, etc.). Overall, the
writing project pages should be designed with a consistent style and use of elements (e.g.
regular font style and size, common layout, common color scheme, and so on).

Part 4: Portfolio Reflection (1000 words)

Overview:​ ​For the reflection portion of WP4, you will compose a 1000-word portfolio reflection.
In this statement you will reflect on your personal understanding of composing as it matters to
you. Reflection allows you the opportunity to process knowledge and then apply that knowledge.
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In doing this, you can come to understand your experiences and interpret what it is you have
learned through them. This semester we have used reflection in this way. In the final
assignment you will use reflection to analyze and interpret your learning process. Over the
semester, you have had the opportunity to create a knowledge base of writing and its practices.

Form and Content​: The portfolio reflection should be installed in a page titled "WP4: Portfolio
Reflection”. This final reflection will help you finalize that theory. In doing so you will explore the
following questions:

1. What is your understanding of rhetoric in its various forms? What is writing to you? What
is Dialogue? What is visually important?
2. What was your understanding of rhetoric coming into this course? How has that
understanding evolved?
3. What has contributed the most to your overall understanding of rhetoric?
4. What is the relationship between your current understanding of rhetoric and what you
may still need to learn?
5. How might your understanding of rhetoric be applied to other writing situations both
inside the classroom and outside the classroom?

Your reflection should be informed by your literacy practices, the learning outcomes of the
course, and should suggest how your prior experiences with writing have prepared you for
future engagement with personal, academic, professional, and civic occasions for writing.

Your reflection should be supported with concrete evidence (i.e. quotes, examples, screenshots,
anecdotes, and other examples) from your semester’s work and your writing process.

Rough Draft Due​: 4/22

Final Draft Due​: 4/29