Portfolio

Overview

The portfolio is meant to showcase your writing experiences at the University of Denver. The portfolio is a culmination of the learning and writing tasks that you have done as part of the Minor in Writing Practices, and it should demonstrate that you have met the following goals:

  • Students will learn writing techniques and strategies, and they will gain practical experience writing for different audiences and purposes and in different genres.
  • Students will understand differences in writing for creative, professional, academic, and civic situations.
  • Students will learn origins, contexts, assumptions, and implications of different theories of and approaches to writing.
  • Students will develop a portfolio of writings that will effectively represent their abilities to various constituencies.

Because the minor is meant to teach versatility, your portfolio should provide diverse evidence. Because the minor is meant to teach deliberate practice informed by theory and scholarship, your portfolio should show some reflective and scholarly analysis of writing. Because the minor is meant to teach rhetorical awareness, your portfolio should have works meant for and revised towards different audiences.

Therefore, here are the primary artifacts that every portfolio should have:

  • At least one project from the Applied Writing category of the minor.
  • At least one project from the Theory, History, Research in Writing category of the minor.
  • At least one project from a Common Curriculum course (WRIT, AI, SI) or a Major course
  • At least one project from WRIT 2000 “Theories of Writing.”
  • Your Revision project from WRIT 3500.
  • At least one Analysis (Reflection or Deconstruction) from WRIT 3500.

In addition to these artifacts, your website should include the following:

  • About/bio page.
  • Coursework descriptions page

You are not limited to just these works. Here are other links or works that you might also include:

  • Activities from this class. E.g., the ecosystem map or the infographic.
  • Any other works from your Curation that you want to include.
  • Learning portfolios or multipart projects from other courses. E.g., final project from WRIT 2000.
  • Support or previous drafts of work to show process. E.g., the original work that you revised for the Revision project.

 

FAQ

How will you be graded?

See rubric. Your portfolio will be evaluated by me.

Should I use PDFs, Google Doc Links, or webtext for my artifacts?

This is design choice. However, return to the design lesson from earlier in the class. You want unity. If one thing is a PDF and another thing is a webtext, it can break the unity of the design. You want to best use the affordances of the medium. Longer works might not translate well if you copy and paste them to webtext. However, clicking lots of links and opening PDFs can lead to you losing your audience.

Who is the audience?

Your portfolios will be publicly displayed, linked from the Writing Program website, and used as future models for students in the class. Future audiences may include potential employers and graduate schools.

What is the timeline

Because you always have access to your portfolio website, you can draft, revise, design, redesign whenever you want. You should continuously work on your website except when it is under review.

Wednesday, May 18 Peer Review

Wednesday, June 1 Portfolio due.

Friday, June 3  Postmortem due