Semester II Project: Writing Portfolio

Due Date: Friday, June 4, 2012 (no late portfolios will be accepted)

Instructions:

A portfolio is a collection of work designed to demonstrate a person’s skills. Because you’ve spent a whole school year completing a variety of written assignments, this is an ideal time for you, as a writer, to put together your own portfolio.

For the assignment, I will be assessing you by evaluating your progress as a writer throughout the second half of the school year. To do this, I will be looking at all of the writing you’ve done this semester to determine how you’ve responded to feedback from me and from your peers to improve your writing and how you’ve learned from that feedback not to make the same errors in subsequent assignments.

You are welcome to print out all of the work you’ve done and turn in your portfolio in a folder or binder or you may submit an electronic portfolio (a zip file or a website or blog containing all of your written work).

Your portfolio should contain the following items:

1. Cover page – should be interesting and eye-catching
2. Table of contents – list all of the documents included in your portfolio
3. Introduction – a brief evaluation of how you’ve progressed as a writer this semester, discuss your opinion of your performance on each assignment, your opinion of how you’ve improved as a writer and what your future goals are as a student writer
4. Annotated bibliography (2 March) – include the assignment sheet, rough draft of annotation #1, the rough drafts of annotations 2-4 with feedback, the peer review feedback you received, the final draft containing all eight annotations and your grade sheet
5. Case study (23 March) – include the assignment sheet, the rough draft with feedback, the final draft and your grade sheet
6. Film script (17 May) – include the assignment sheet, approximately 4 pages of the rough draft with feedback, the same 4 pages of the final draft and your group’s grade sheet
7. In-class writings – choose 2 of the 4 in-class essays you will compose over the next five weeks and include them in the portfolio as representations of what you’re able to do as a writer in a limited period of time