Unit 3 Project: Portfolio & Final Reflection

A portfolio is a collection of work that demonstrates

a range of one’s best work in various areas. In this
course portfolio, you will select and reflect on your
work from this course that shows achievement of
some of the English 106 course goals and outcomes.

The primary goals of this assignment are for you (1)

to examine your own work in relation to the course
goals and outcomes and (2) to reflect on your
progress as an academic writer.

What To Do
You will work through the following steps.

Step 1: Select work that shows your achievement of each of the 4 main course goals:

a) Review the English 106 goals and outcomes. In your portfolio, you will need to demonstrate
achievement of at least one outcome (lettered lists) for each of the 4 main goals.

b) Review the work that you have completed in this course. Pick 2-4 texts (homework, major
papers, planning, peer review) that show your achievement of specific student learning outcomes
for each of the 4 main goals. It is possible that some of your texts may demonstrate more than one
goal, which is fine.

Step 2: Write reflections of how your texts demonstrate achievement of each goal.
You will write 4 reflections in total—one for each goal.

a) For each of the 4 main course goals, write a (200-350 word) reflection that describes how the
text you selected shows your achievement of at least one of outcomes.
Example: For Goal #1 (Genre Awareness), you might discuss how your Unit 1 Project shows
that you are able to “Recognize and explain shifts in register (e.g., academic, conversational)
in terms of choices in vocabulary and grammar” (Outcome 1a).

b) In each of your 4 reflections, you should:

a. explain which text (assignment, activity, etc.) you have chosen to illustrate your
achievement;
b. include specific examples from your chosen text to support your claim that you have
achieved the outcome;
c. (optionally) discuss the improvements you have made this semester related to the
outcome(s).
 c) Write and revise appropriately for the instructor as your audience—consider language,
organization, and page appearance. You may use “I,” as you will be reflecting on your own
achievements and writing, but also write in an academic register.

Step 3: Organize your texts and reflections in a digital portfolio.

a) Your portfolio (including texts and reflections) should be compiled using MS Sway. This is free
for UArizona students; you can access it here.

Length and Organization Requirements

● Reflections: Four developed reflections of 200-400 words each (structured as paragraphs).
● Organization: Before each reflection, copy the relevant goal and the specific outcome(s) that
you will reflect on. Next, include your text and reflection.

Important Dates
Due Date 24: Final Portfolio due

Grading Criteria
Criterion Description of an “A” Project

Reflection (30%) ● The author shares careful and thoughtful reflections on each of
the four main course goals.
● Each reflection demonstrates, through explanation and examples,
how the writer has achieved at least one outcome within each
major course goal.

Development and ● Each reflection develops a claim (of how the author has achieved
Support (30%) goal outcomes) through explanations, examples, and other details.
The claim is persuasively supported.

Academic Discourse ● Reflections make appropriate and effective use of common

and Language academic phrases for functions like expanding on ideas, providing
Conventions (30%) examples, expressing personal views, and/or making claims.
● Writing incorporates very strong syntactic and lexical variety.
● Text effectively communicates the intended meaning to readers.

Formatting (10%) ● Reflections use conventional formatting for capitalization,

paragraph formatting, and sentence boundaries.
● It is easy for readers to identify the relations between the course
goals/outcomes, reflections, and student texts.
English 106 Learning Objectives for this Project
Reflection and Revision
 3E) Reflect on their processes and progress as academic writers.

Academic Language and Conventions

 4B) Apply conventional formatting features (e.g., capitalization, punctuation, titles, margins, fonts, and
other features of document layout) to their writing.
 4C) Produce text that conveys clear meaning to intended audience(s).