Zack De Piero

Writing 2 Academic Writing Winter 15

Portfolio
Due: Wednesday, March 18th by
5pm
Part 1: Revised WPs

Revise two of your WPs and try to get them to the next level. Apply
anything that youve learned since submitting this piece that you think
can improve it. Consider my comments on your papers and think
about the feedback that youve gotten from your classmates in
Peer/Reader Review workshops. Try to answer some of our
questions/concerns to enhance your work.

Part 2: Revision Document

I want you to create a revision document that clearly details some of

the most important decisions that youve made. Consider: what
changes did you make, and why did you make those changes? How
have those changes impacted your new, revised paper? You are free
to do this however youd like, but take a look at this 4-column matrix
for a suggestion. Please examine 5-10 changes that youve made.

Text from my
initial WP
submission:
(a phrase,
sentence,
paragraph, idea,
move,
punctuation,
piece of
evidence, etc.)

An
observation or
question I
received from
De Piero or a
classmate:

The change(s) I
made to what I
initially wrote:
(ie, the change[s] I
made to column 1)

How this
change impacts
my paper:

Attack of the
page-long
paragraph! Try
to chop up your
paragraphs into
bites

..

Whats the
connection
between these
two sentences?
How do these
ideas connect?

Part 3: Metacognitive Reflection (4-6

pages)

This is your chance to take me through your personal Writing 2

journey. What was the experience like for youfrom WP to WP, article
to article, lesson to lesson? How has your approach to writing,
thinking, and/or researching evolved? What did studying this stuf
mean to you? Has your stance towards writing shifted or changed,
and if so, how? And why?

Not satisfied with those questions? No problem! Here are some

additional questions that can guide your piece:
o Think back to a previous time (last month, last quarter, high
school, etc.): has your perspective on what writing is changed at
all? If so, how? Do you now see anything differently?
(Including yourself as a writer?) If so, what? Explain!
o What have you learned in Writing 2? About the study of and
practice with genres? About rhetoric? About writing
processes? How, exactly, did you learn what you learned? What
worked for you, and why?
o How might you be able to apply what youve learned in Writing
2 to future writing, thinking, and/or researching contexts?
o What does genre awareness mean to you? What do you think
about moves?
o What are some of your favorite strategies, tips, or tricks? Why?

o Did you have any difficulty processing any of our course

concepts? If so, could you speculate on how or why?
o What questions are you left with? What didnt quite sit right
with you? What hasnt processed?

Part 4: Submission

As always, I want a digital archive of all of your work. Im going to

create a forum on Gauchospace for you to upload all of your relevant
portfolio documents. Heres what you should include:
o Each WP submission (use the document with my comments on
them!)
o Each new, revised, final WP
o Your Revision Document
o Your metacognitive reflection essay
o and anything else that you feel like you should include!

You have two options to submit your portfolio: an old school hard
copy in a folder or a digital e-portfolio. During our last class, Ill go
explain the nutsnbolts of Weebly. If you want to use another digital
platform, go for it! (Blogger might be able to work.)