STRUCTURE FOR ASSIGNMENT WEBPAGES
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 webpages, you make choices about how you generate, design, arrange, and organize content. All of these choices are framed by your purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain. The webpages, 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 below 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 webpages.
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 webpages, you make choices about how you generate, design, arrange, and organize content. All of these choices are framed by your purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain. The webpages, 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 below 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 webpages.
FINAL ASSIGNMENTS WEBPAGE
- 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 (or other assignment) (hyperlink this text to your assignment page with access to the drafts)
- Research Paper (hyperlink this text to your assignment 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 (OR OTHER ASSIGNMENT) ASSIGNMENT WEBPAGE
- 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 that illustrate your meaning-making processes (reflections, generative writing).
- 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 Documents (or webpage) 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 ASSIGNMENT WEBPAGE
- 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 that illustrate your meaning-making processes (reflections, generative writing).
- 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 Documents (or webpage) 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
