UWRT 1102 Fall 2014

S. Thomas

Portfolio & Final Reflection Assignment Sheet

The portfolio is 60% of the final course grade. Daily grades are 40%.
Platform: You can use Weebly, WIX, Mahara, or Google Docs as long as all pieces are
included. Scribd is great, but not required.
The e-portfolio is a culmination of your work throughout UWRT 1101, a place for you to
showcase your best thinking and writing, and incorporate visual elements. Think of the portfolio
as an organic whole. Your commentary about the various pieces will help guide your reader
through your portfolio. Help your reader make connections. Be creative and have fun! Home
page: Include your name, course name and section, and an optional image of yourself. Introduce
yourself. Consider the rhetorical impact of your choices.
Include the five tabs below:
1) Daybook: Four daybook entries/free writes of your choice. These can be photos if pieces
are handwritten. Add analysis at the bottom of each explaining your choices.
2) Literacy Narrative (1st, 2nd, 3rd drafts),
3) Genre Analysis (1st, 2nd, 3rd drafts),
4) Discourse Community (1st, 2nd, 3rd drafts)
5) Final Reflection (see below).
Final Reflection (props to Dr. Meaghan Rand)
1. If you were to teach this class, what ideas would you emphasis?
2. This is your opportunity to talk back to a writer we read and wrote about in class. What
would you say? If you like the piece and found it helpful, why and how? If you disliked
it, why? What suggestions do you have for other readings, activities?
3. What have you learned about writing that you can take with you to other classes? Focus
on purpose, audience, genre, rhetorical appeals, etc.
4. Imagine you are in a class that requires a lot of writing, but does not have time allotted
for peer feedback. You would like to start a writing group with a couple peers from the
class. How do you persuade them to meet? What behavioral suggestions do you give
them to help group members do well on their papers and grow as writers?
5. Describe the process of writing one of your major papers. How did you go about drafting
it? What feedback did you receive? What choices did you make? Why? What are your
thoughts on the final product?
Course Grade (from the syllabus): A:VeryGood:90100%:Earnedbythosewho:show

sustainedrigorinallaspectsoftheclass(classwork,processwork,majorprojects,attendance,
peerresponse,presentations);showahighlevelofpolishinthefinaldraftsandhaveastrong,
detailedfinalreflectionthatdemonstratesahighlevelofmetacognitive(thinkingabout
yourthinking)awareness;participateineveryclassandsubmitallworkontime;takerisksand
activelytrytoimprovetheirskillsasawriter;produceworkthatstandsoutinquality,content,
andeffort.
Thestrongportfolioshoulddemonstratespurpose,reflectivelearning,rhetoricalawareness,

strongdevelopmentandcontent,andpolish.