Eng 102 Pfister/ Spr19

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.

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• Focus on experiences related to your academic achievements and professional

goals.


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 (may be attached as a file)

• 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
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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. 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:

• What is your understanding of rhetoric in its various forms? What is writing to you?
What is Dialogue? What is visually important?

• What was your understanding of rhetoric coming into this course? How has that
understanding evolved?

• What has contributed the most to your overall understanding of rhetoric?

• What is the relationship between your current understanding of rhetoric and what you
may still need to learn?

• 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.