Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Paper 5
ePortfolio: Writing to Revise
Assignment Description
Your ePortfolio is a place where you will collect and showcase all the work you’ve completed throughout
the semester. You must include the following 20 pieces in your ePortfolio:
Each draft you submitted for online peer-review
Each feedback letter you received for online peer-review
Each essay you submitted for grading
Each graded essay with my comments you received (the only exclusions are the mid-semester
assessment and library session reflections)
A revised version of each paper in which you incorporate my comments
If you do not have one of these pieces (for example, if you didn’t participate in peer-review or did not
submit an assignment), you cannot submit a “make-up.” You will receive a small deduction for the
missing piece.
In addition, you are required to compose a Portfolio Letter. The Portfolio Letter should explain the works
that are included in your portfolio, what your purpose and audience was for each, should comment
thoroughly on how the pieces demonstrate your mastery of the course goals, and should be
approximately 1,200-1,500 words. Do not merely tell me what you changed in your revisions; if so, you
will not have success on this portion of the assignment. Further details about the portfolio letter are
below. We’ll look at samples of ePortfolios and portfolio letters as we work through this assignment.
We will create the ePortfolios in class, so be sure to attend on Tuesday, November 20.
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Portfolio Letter description adapted from Dr. Paula Mathieu of Boston College
together. As one of your readers, I have not witnessed your writing process in its entirety—I haven’t
watched you write, seen your notes, heard you talk to friends about your projects, seen you struggle,
etc. This letter allows you to share with me your process as well as your view on how well you have met
the stated objectives of the course.
Your letter should be approximately 1,200-1,500 words. In it, you should discuss the work you’ve done
in relation to the goals of each essay. Consider and demonstrate these objectives by referring to specific
essays you’ve written how responding to the works of your peers helped you develop or think about
each of the specific objectives. Try to offer a sense of what you see as your greatest strengths as a
writer, what areas you want to develop, what has been most worthwhile in this course, and how you
want to work on your writing in the future.
Framework
In your letter, you must address the following issues and themes we have discussed throughout the
semester:
Process Questions
Subject-Related Questions
Rhetoric-Related Questions
Self-Assessment Questions
1. What are the most significant strengths and weaknesses in this writing?
2. Will others also see these as important strengths or weaknesses? Why or why not?
3. What specific ideas and plans do I have for revision?
You might consider writing one paragraph for each of these topics in which you discuss all four papers
(Framework A). Alternatively, you could discuss each paper and how these topics relate to each paper
separately (Framework B).
Framework A
Introduction Introduce the most important techniques, ideas, and skills you learned this
semester.
Process Examples from Paper 1
Examples from Paper 2
Examples from Paper 3
Examples from Paper 4
Subject-Related Examples from Paper 1
Examples from Paper 2
Examples from Paper 3
Examples from Paper 4
Rhetoric-Related Examples from Paper 1
Examples from Paper 2
Examples from Paper 3
Examples from Paper 4
Self-Assessment Examples from Paper 1
Examples from Paper 2
Examples from Paper 3
Examples from Paper 4
Conclusion How you will apply the skills you learned in ENGL 111 to your future courses and
other writing endeavors.
Framework B
Introduction Introduce the most important techniques, ideas, and skills you learned this
semester.
Paper 1 How you used process, subject-related, rhetoric-related, and self-assessment in
this paper.
Paper 2 How you used process, subject-related, rhetoric-related, and self-assessment in
this paper.
Paper 3 How you used process, subject-related, rhetoric-related, and self-assessment in
this paper.
Paper 4 How you used process, subject-related, rhetoric-related, and self-assessment in
this paper.
Conclusion How you will apply the skills you learned in ENGL 111 to your future courses and
other writing endeavors.
Grading
For this assignment, I will be double-checking that all twenty documents are included. I will also be
grading slightly on design and ease of use of your portfolio (we’ll be discussing this in-class). Please make
sure you revise your papers, as I will be looking at revisions, too. The Portfolio Letter is important and I
will be looking for a clearly articulated and well-thought out reflection about your work this semester. If
you merely tell me what you changed in each paper, you will not have success on this paper. Instead,
you should show how those changes align with (or differ from) the course and assignment goals.