FINAL PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS (DUE AT 11:59 PM on TUESDAY, MAY 8.)
Welcome to the final chapter of our English Composition I course!
This page provides the requirements for completing and submitting your final portfolio. To help you contextualize, structure, and submit your final portfolio, please review the following three sections:
SECTION #1: WEBSITE AS A PORTFOLIO
SECTION #2: WEBSITE STRUCTURE
SECTION #3: FINAL PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION PROCESS
You are almost there!
This page provides the requirements for completing and submitting your final portfolio. To help you contextualize, structure, and submit your final portfolio, please review the following three sections:
SECTION #1: WEBSITE AS A PORTFOLIO
SECTION #2: WEBSITE STRUCTURE
SECTION #3: FINAL PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION PROCESS
You are almost there!
SECTION #1: WEBSITE AS A PORTFOLIO
Your personal website serves as a digital portfolio for this course. The digital portfolio serves two main functions:
1) The website serves as a delivery system for your authorship in this class. The medium provides your audience with transparent digital access to your processes and your products, which allows for holistic assessment of your writing.
2) The website serves as a text in and of itself. Much like a blog post, reflective letter, memoir, or research paper, a website is a composition. When you create and revise your web pages, you make choices about how you generate, design, and revise content. All of these choices are framed by your rhetorical purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain. The web pages, for example, must 1) present a thematic cohesion that illustrates you as a writer in a college composition course, 2) provide links to source materials, 3) structure content so the material is easy to read, and 4) offer information to the audience that contextualizes your course assignments. As the author of a website, then, you ask the same types of rhetorical questions you ask of a traditional print essay. As part of our holistic assessment of your writing in this class, we will consider the choices you have made to compose your website.
With this as a backdrop, I'll ask you to use the framework provided in SECTION 2 to structure and contextualize your assignment pages. Here is a student sample you can use as a model. Feel free to talk to me about other possible frameworks you might want to use for your web pages.
Your personal website serves as a digital portfolio for this course. The digital portfolio serves two main functions:
1) The website serves as a delivery system for your authorship in this class. The medium provides your audience with transparent digital access to your processes and your products, which allows for holistic assessment of your writing.
2) The website serves as a text in and of itself. Much like a blog post, reflective letter, memoir, or research paper, a website is a composition. When you create and revise your web pages, you make choices about how you generate, design, and revise content. All of these choices are framed by your rhetorical purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain. The web pages, for example, must 1) present a thematic cohesion that illustrates you as a writer in a college composition course, 2) provide links to source materials, 3) structure content so the material is easy to read, and 4) offer information to the audience that contextualizes your course assignments. As the author of a website, then, you ask the same types of rhetorical questions you ask of a traditional print essay. As part of our holistic assessment of your writing in this class, we will consider the choices you have made to compose your website.
With this as a backdrop, I'll ask you to use the framework provided in SECTION 2 to structure and contextualize your assignment pages. Here is a student sample you can use as a model. Feel free to talk to me about other possible frameworks you might want to use for your web pages.
SECTION #2: WEBSITE STRUCTURE
Home Page
Home Page
- Introduction: One paragraph that informs the reader about why you have created this website.
- Include a link to our course page: https://www.sabatinomangini.com/english-composition-i.html
- Include a link to the Delaware County Community College home page: https://www.dccc.edu/
- Establish a Writerly Theme
- Option #1: Insert photos of yourself in scenes as a writer.
- Option #2: Use stock writerly photos.
- Option #3: Create a metaphor. With this option, please include language on the home page that explains the metaphor.
About
- Photo of you.
- 200-word biography.
- Link to Proust Questionnaire Blog Post.
- Links to other relevant online sources.
Final Assignments Web Page
- Introduction: One paragraph that informs the reader about the content on the page.
- Formal Assignments: Provide the names of the two formal assignments.
- Life-Choice Memoir (hyperlink this text to your life-choice memoir assignment web page with access to the drafts)
- Research Paper (hyperlink this text to your research paper assignment web page with access to the drafts)
- Informal Assignments: Provide links to your three most meaningful blog posts.
- Blog #1 (provide the blog title and a link to the individual blog post)
- Blog #2 (provide the blog title and a link to the individual blog post)
- Blog #3 (provide the blog title and a link to the individual blog post)
Life-Choice Memoir Web Page
- Introduction: 250-500 words that inform the reader about your writing processes and the final product. Include a link to the assignment sheet and links to blog posts (#3, #4, #5, and #7).
- Present Drafts: Two options to show readers your work (if you have other options, please let me know):
- Option #1: Traditional Print Text
- Bulleted list with links to Word or PDF files or public Google Doc for each draft.
- Label each draft this way: Original Title Draft #_.
- Option #2: Multimedia Text
- Bulleted list with links to individual webpages for each draft.
- Label each draft this way: Original Title Draft #_.
- Option #1: Traditional Print Text
Research Paper Web Page
- Introduction: 250-500 words that inform the reader about your writing processes and the final product. Include a link to the assignment sheet and links to blog posts (#9, #10, #11, #12).
- Present Drafts: Two options to show readers your work (if you have other options, please let me know):
- Option #1: Traditional Print Text
- Bulleted list with links to Word or PDF files or public Google Doc for each draft.
- Label each draft this way: Original Title Draft #_.
- Option #2: Multimedia Text
- Bulleted list with links to individual webpages for each draft.
- Label each draft this way: Original Title Draft #_.
- Option #1: Traditional Print Text
Contact
- Contact box.
- Any additional contact information: email, social media, etc.
Blog
- Author Box has been personalized or deleted.
- Each blog post provides the required title, categories, and links to digital source materials.
- Required assignment #s: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
- Optional assignment #s: 6, 8, 14, 15.
SECTION #3: FINAL PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION PROCESS
Your final portfolio is due at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, May 8. When you are ready to submit your final portfolio, please email me at smangini@dccc.edu. In the email, I ask you to provide the following:
1) A reflective assessment letter (250 words or so) that explains what grade you think you have earned in this course. Please use this sentence: In my English Composition I course, I think I have earned a grade of ___.
2) A hyperlink to your website home page.
3) A link to this course grading agreement:
https://www.sabatinomangini.com/uploads/4/5/9/6/4596832/course_grading_agreement.pdf
Your final portfolio is due at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, May 8. When you are ready to submit your final portfolio, please email me at smangini@dccc.edu. In the email, I ask you to provide the following:
1) A reflective assessment letter (250 words or so) that explains what grade you think you have earned in this course. Please use this sentence: In my English Composition I course, I think I have earned a grade of ___.
2) A hyperlink to your website home page.
3) A link to this course grading agreement:
https://www.sabatinomangini.com/uploads/4/5/9/6/4596832/course_grading_agreement.pdf