Project 4: Portfolio

CONTEXT
In your visual argument project, you revised one of your essays from a textual composition to a
visual one. In the aftermath of such revision, you may be left wonder how the
remediation/revision is a practical skill. In this unit well explore that by bringing that sense of
radical revision back to your first two papers.
WRITING SCENARIO
You will return to both your literacy narrative and discourse community paper and revise one
based on the feedback you received on your graded paper and one you will revise radically.
You have choice on which paper you want to revise which way, but options for the radical
revisions include:
-Revising your literacy narrative into a fictional story (or vice-versa)
-Changing the audience of your discourse community paper so that you are explaining what
your discourse community is to a friend youve run into at Grey House
-Developing a revision strategy based off of Raymond Queneaus Exercises in Style.
Along with your portfolio you should include five reader responses. In the last week of classes
you will also do an informal 3-5 minute presentation on your revision process.
DELIVERABLES
Presentation
In your last meeting you will present on your revision process, how you plan on going about
your radical revision, and any general changes in your writing that may have occurred this
semester.
Portfolio
You will submit your two revised papers with a .75 page cover letter due on blackboard by
11:59:59 PM on May 8th.
GOALS
This project aims to (1) consider what it means to globally revise, and revise ambitiously, and (2)
think about our writing as something malleable.