Alma Ramirez

Dr. Jason Dew

ENGL 1302-280: English Composition I
4/18/2023

Before class, read pages 809-817 of Lunsford. Respond to these questions:

1. What are some ways that portfolios can be used? Students can collect essays, research
projects, and multimedia presentations.
2. What does a portfolio submitted to a professor at the end of the semester do and what is
included? 
It would likely include a summary of your teaching experience and responsibilities, a reflective
statement of your teaching philosophy and goals, a brief discussion of your teaching methods
and strategies, as well as activities undertaken to improve teaching and a statement of goals and
plans for the course
3. How will you determine what to include in the portfolio? Personal Information, Values,
Personal Goals and History, Accomplishments and Job History, Skills and Attributes, Education
and Training as well as Testimonials and Recommendations.
4. How will you organize your portfolio? The portfolio does not need to be chronological, put
pieces in an order that enables you to communicate everything you wish in the order you want.
Personal Information, Values, Personal Goals and History, Accomplishments and Job History,
Skills, and Attributes, Education, and Training as well as Testimonials and Recommendations.
Depending on the purpose of the situation submit.
Also, before class, watch the "Weebly Tutorial for Beginners" video that is posted to
Blackboard. Respond to these questions: 
1. What will your domain name be? Alma’s Art supplies.
 2. Do you need to pay for Weebly?  Yes to keep ads and to keep the domain more professional
3. Is Weebly a "grid system"? Where users drag elements to specific parts of pages, snapping
them into place? What does it mean to be a grid system? 
4. Explain how to add text (in general)? To add text start with the build then on the right
section select where you want to add text
 Click or drag text. When ready you can type your text.
April 20
Before class, read, Assembling Writing Portfolios" by Karen Mauk that is posted on
Blackboard. Respond to these questions: 
1. What does Mauk say about why portfolios are assigned?
 Increasingly, colleges have been using portfolios as a way to assess individual students'
performance and sometimes to see if the student body as a whole is meeting university standards.
In addition, some employers request portfolios so that they can assess an applicant's writing
proficiency. Because portfolios are so widely used, knowing how to assemble a portfolio is an
important skill. It gives the student a unique opportunity for you to present your intellectual track
record, showing where you've been and how you've developed as a college writer. Increasingly,
colleges have been using portfolios as a way to assess individual students' performance and
sometimes to see if the student body as a whole is meeting university standards.
2. What does Mauk say effective portfolios highlight?
Growth and process or best works and presentation portfolios.
3. Based upon Mauk's advice and the assignment prompt create a list of what you will
include in your
We make sure that my portfolio contains the best work that I have completed for my class. as we
as many of my assignments and notes that I have taken for this class.
4. What does Mauk say that reflective statements allow students to do? It allows the writer to
be focused on the reflection and evaluations of the writer's portfolio.

1. From the comments you received from me on your first essay, list the revisions you need
to complete First of all most of my classmates did not participate and secondly, no one sent
feedback to my essay. However I would follow the guidance to ensure to do the following.
1. Controlling idea that reveals to your classmates how the members of the community use the
genre (remember, this is not simply a definition of the genre—it needs to be specific to the
community)
2. Introduction that hooks readers and narrows your focus in the essay
3. Topic sentences for each paragraph that connect the sub-point of the paragraph to the
controlling idea
4. Evidence from the genre itself in every paragraph with the correct in-text MLA citation
5. Conclusion that summarizes your essay (2 sentences), tells your readers why your analysis is
important (2 sentences), and tells your readers what you want them to do with the information (2
sentences)
6. Omits the use of the pronoun “you”
7. Work Cited page in the correct MLA format
I have not gotten any feedback yet, but I do think that I did learn from my previous mistakes and
have done my best to complete this essay. I do need to have the proper citations for my essay as
well as have the complete word count that is required to finish my essay.
2. Do the same for your second essay
1. Controlling idea that reveals to your classmates how the members of three communities use
the same genre (remember, this is not simply a definition of the genre—it needs to be specific to
the community) in different and similar ways.
2. Introduction that hooks readers and narrows your focus in the essay
3. Topic sentences for each paragraph that connect the sub-point of the paragraph to the
controlling idea
4. Evidence from the communities’ uses of the genre itself in every paragraph with the correct in-
text MLA citation
5. Conclusion that summarizes your essay (2 sentences), tells your readers why your analysis is
important (2 sentences), and tells your readers what you want them to do with the information (2
sentences)
6. Omits the use of the pronoun “you”
7. Work Cited page in the correct MLA format
This essay I did do a little better however I still need a lot to improve on due to the fact that is
was still a low grade.
3. Do the same for your third essay.
1. Thesis statement that reveals to your classmates how effective the author of the peer-review
article is in communicating his/her argument to the members of his/her community.
2. Introduction that hooks readers and narrows your focus in the essay
3. Topic sentences for each paragraph that connect the sub-point of the paragraph to the
controlling idea
4. Evidence from the peer-reviewed article in every paragraph with the correct in-text MLA
citation.
5. Conclusion that summarizes your essay (2 sentences), tells your readers why your analysis is
important (2 sentences), and tells your readers what you want them to do with the information (2
sentences)
6. Omits the use of the pronoun “you” and the pronoun “I”
7. Work Cited page in the correct MLA format