Description
It’s time to take a breath and proudly showcase the writing you’ve completed this semester. You will create an e-portfolio with a selection of your writing in this course and other courses this semester. You will showcase writing pieces that reflect your development as a writer, a researcher, and an intellectual. You will showcase writing that reflects your struggling moments and achievement ones.
Step #1: Preparing your E-Portfolio
- Research paper in multiple drafts with peer review, instructor feedback, and/or LC tutor’s comments, and reflective piece
- Two minor writing assignments/activities (e.g., in-class writing, journals)
- The final draft of a writing assignment you completed for another course this semester. If you haven’t had any writing assignment in other courses this semester, you can use one writing from last semester; assignments from ENGL 1010 aren’t allowed.
- Reflective cover letter
Step #2: Writing your Reflective Cover Letter
After you compile your e-portfolio as explained above, you will write a reflective cover letter with your e-portfolio. Your letter should include the following sections: - An introduction (two paragraphs or about 250 words) that answers why you have selected the pieces in your e-portfolio and how they showcase your development as a writer, a researcher, and an intellectual. Citing title of your work helps me understand which piece you’re talking about.
- An analysis of your development as a writer (about 750 words) as demonstrated in the writing pieces. Make references to specific places in your writing (pages and paragraphs) that support that development. Using titles and page numbers of your work will help me find the examples you refer to. Your analysis can highlight the bad and the good, and how the course activities may have helped you improve those bad areas. You can discuss new learning, development, a skill, an insight you’ve had while working on these pieces.
- An analysis of how your understanding and use of the key terms has influenced your writing of these pieces and how that knowledge will inform your writing in future academic, professional, and civic contexts. Please include a discussion of one composition theory reading that you did in this class or in a previous composition course that informed your writing theory and practice.
- Look forward to future situations: classes, career, any other activities. How do you envision using what you have learned in this class in writing situations within your major? What parts do you think will be especially helpful to the work done in your major? What about writing for your work and/or career?
Pick a specific audience (your teacher, yourself, a future composition student, your future self) and choose the genre that you think is best to address that audience: a letter, an essay, a narrative.
Length: 4-5 pages double space