Final e-Portfolio & Final Portfolio Essay (FPE) Ingram Fall 2014

Revisit the homepage of our class Weebly for some reminders about the e-Portfolio assignment. Youll also
want to keep the e-Portfolio grade scale (pg. 3 of the syllabus) at hand. Blog post #5 as well as your midterm
will be helpful. My response to your midterm might prove helpful, too.
In this assignmentthe e-Portfolio and the portfolio essayI value your writerly (rhetorical) choices. Thats
why Im not dictating everything you include or how you organize it. The e-Portfolio is a composition, and

you are the composer.

Audience/Reader = Me, your teacher. However, during the process of compiling your portfolio and writing this
essay, you will find that you are also your audience. As you work, you will learn a lot about your learning in
this class and will work through the best ways to articulate that for yourself and, subsequently, for me.

e-Portfolio (your Weebly website)

Purpose = to present your work from the course in a meaningful way that helps your reader understand what
and how you learned.

Content:
Required Artifacts
FPE - final draft
Portrait of a Writer final draft
Midterm with revisions if necessary
Literacy Narrative final draft
Blog (all 6 posts)
*All final drafts should be EMBEDDED.
Writers Choice Artifacts
4 Process Work artifacts (drafts, pre-writing, brainstorming, etc. These artifacts should illustrate your
writing process from beginning to end, including your efforts at revision & editing.)
2 Feedback artifacts (feedback that youve given and/or received. These artifacts should illustrate how
providing and receiving feedback helped you improve your writing.)
2 Writers Notebook artifacts (anything from your notebook that you wrote that was important to your
learning in the course: RRLs, notes from a class activity, warm-ups, etc.)
2 wild cards (any artifact from this semester, from this course or from another one, that was integral to
your learning in UWRT 1101 that youd like to highlight.)
0-3 Make-up Work (any missing RRLs or other daily assignments that you missed.)

You can organize your Weebly site however youd like. What to keep in mind as you organize/compose:
Your FPE (final draft) should be the first thing, or one of the first things, your readers can find, since it
is the explanation of your e-Portfolio and your reader will need to read that first.
Your e-Portfolio is a composition. You want your site to be navigable and easy to read and to use.
Readers typically read websites from left to right and from top to bottom.
Consider the 5 modes of communication as you design your e-Portfolio. Captions, pictures, and
overall design can help you convey information and emphasize your main points.
Consider how youre appealing to pathos, ethos, and logos.
Consider the purpose of your e-Portfolio. Each part of your design should help you fulfill that purpose.

Final Portfolio Essay (FPE)

Purposes (listed in no particular order) =
Explain the organization of your e-Portfolio. Include how you utilized various modes of communication.
Explain how each piece of your portfolio contributed to your learning in the course. Youll need to
discuss each Required Artifact and every Writers Choice Artifact. Your reader shouldnt have to
guess about the purpose of any piece of your e-Portfolio.
Analyze & Explain how your writing has grown. This requires quoting from your work to shownot
just tellabout your experiences with writing this semester.
Explain how you were engaged with at least 3 of the key concepts from the course.
Explain the grade you deserve, based on what youve presented and according to the e-Portfolio grade
scale (as seen on the syllabus).
Other things to keep in mind:
You probably cant write a thorough Portfolio Essay in fewer than 5 double-spaced pages (MLA
format).
Looking for trends in your learning experience and/or framing your essay with a theme might be helpful.
Consider using subheadings, bolded text, hyperlinks, or other rhetorical strategies to help your
reader.
QUOTING from the work youre discussingfrom the pieces of your portfoliois crucial. Please
note that according to the portfolio grade scale on the syllabus, you must amply quote from your work to
show what youre discussing/to support the claims youre making about your work and your learning.
Remember question C on the midterm.