Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Portfolio Week!
As promised, here is the portfolio assignment sheet posted up for everybody!
When you speak, what do you say?
Now that we are coming to the end of the semester, we must gather our work and reflect on our accomplishments. In order to grow as writers, it is necessary to constantly look back at where we have come from and look forward to where we are going. You will face many other challenges in writing (core seminar, to be immediate) and your work this semester would be less valuable if you did not consider it as part of the process of your growth as writers. In the final week of the class, we will be editing and revising our work in order to develop comprehensive portfolios to be handed in to the department. Based on close peer-editing and individual time with me, our writing should develop even more within this week of intensive composition assessment.
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Your Final Portfolio must include:
2 formal essays with drafts
1 in-class essay
1 self-assessment
*Choose your best work to go in the portfolios! Your work will be reviewed by multiple English professors to assure that you have passed the course. Even if your grades and effort were superb all semester, a failing portfolio will not allow you to pass the course!!!
Self-Assessment
Use this 2-3 page paper as a chance to show how you’ve grown in the course. Consider your writing skills and critical thinking skills before the semester began and compare them to your writing level now. How has what you have read and written helped mold you into a critical thinker and writer? Have you questioned anything new that you had never thought about before? How has your vision of the world around you changed, or has your vision been reinforced more heavily? Do you feel like your voice can contribute to a community of people who voice their opinions, whether it is through writing essays, giving speeches, creating art or protesting for a belief? Everyone has a different voice; the question is how one uses it. Where do you see your voice fitting into society?
When you speak, what do you say?
Now that we are coming to the end of the semester, we must gather our work and reflect on our accomplishments. In order to grow as writers, it is necessary to constantly look back at where we have come from and look forward to where we are going. You will face many other challenges in writing (core seminar, to be immediate) and your work this semester would be less valuable if you did not consider it as part of the process of your growth as writers. In the final week of the class, we will be editing and revising our work in order to develop comprehensive portfolios to be handed in to the department. Based on close peer-editing and individual time with me, our writing should develop even more within this week of intensive composition assessment.
***
Your Final Portfolio must include:
2 formal essays with drafts
1 in-class essay
1 self-assessment
*Choose your best work to go in the portfolios! Your work will be reviewed by multiple English professors to assure that you have passed the course. Even if your grades and effort were superb all semester, a failing portfolio will not allow you to pass the course!!!
Self-Assessment
Use this 2-3 page paper as a chance to show how you’ve grown in the course. Consider your writing skills and critical thinking skills before the semester began and compare them to your writing level now. How has what you have read and written helped mold you into a critical thinker and writer? Have you questioned anything new that you had never thought about before? How has your vision of the world around you changed, or has your vision been reinforced more heavily? Do you feel like your voice can contribute to a community of people who voice their opinions, whether it is through writing essays, giving speeches, creating art or protesting for a belief? Everyone has a different voice; the question is how one uses it. Where do you see your voice fitting into society?
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