Assignment for english

Final Portfolio Assignment

ENGL 101-27, Fall 2017

This assignment is in lieu of a final exam.

For the final portfolio, you will write a brief biography, a reflective introduction, and select from work you've

already completed this semester to highlight your accomplishment of one of the course objectives.

This is worth 10% of your final course grade and is due electronically through Blackboard or as a hard copy

turn in to me by the end of our assigned final exam period, which is Monday, December 11th from 2:30-

4:30pm.

Biography (New, 10 points)

This is your "about the author" for your portfolio. In one to two paragraphs, introduce yourself. You can

include general information about where you're from, what you plan to do after college, and hobbies and

interests, and you can also include information about your experiences with writing (do you like it? hate it?

Have some good or bad experiences with English classes?) You'll turn in a draft of this for the Blackboard

assignment due December 3rd and I'll let you know if you need to add anything to it.

Reflective Introduction (New, 50 points)

This is the most important part of your portfolio. For this, you will choose one of the twelve course goals

from page two of the syllabus, and in this short essay (2-3 pages), you will make the argument that the work

you have included in your portfolio demonstrates that you have accomplished this course goal. You'll

identify the goal you've chosen, explain what you understand it to mean, and then explain how the work in

the rest of your portfolio (two essays, two Blackboard assignments, and wild card) is evidence that you have

accomplished the goal. The course work is your evidence; here is where you introduce the evidence and let

the reader know what they should pay attention to. We'll discuss this part of the assignment in greater

detail today.

Two Essays (10 points each, 20 points total)

For this, you should choose two essays that demonstrate your accomplishment of the course goal you

discuss in your reflective introduction. The grade for this part of the portfolio is partly based on the quality

of the essays and partly based on how you introduce them, how they fit with your chosen course goal.

Two Blackboard Assignments (5 points each, 10 points total)

For this, you should choose two of your written Blackboard responses that demonstrate your

accomplishment of the course goal you discuss in your reflective introduction. The grade for this part of the

portfolio is partly based on the quality of the assignments and partly based on how you introduce them,

how they fit with your chosen course goal (which you establish in the reflective introduction). 

Blackboard assignments eligible for inclusion in your final portfolio:

--Peer review responses you wrote for classmates (not the drafts you submitted for others to review or

reviews other people wrote for you) (The quickest way to get to these is to follow the "Discussions" link in

the left hand menu on Blackboard)

--Summary vs Analysis (Week 3)

--Thesis Statements (Week 4)

--Story Openings (Week 6)

--Evidence Sandwich Review (Week 9)

--How The Internet Is Making Us Stupid (Week 11)

--I Have A Dream (Week 12)

Wild Card (10 points)

For this, you may choose to include either a third essay from the class or something you have written or

composed outside of class (a paper for another class, an email, writing you have done for fun, artwork, a

powerpoint presentation, etc). Whatever you choose, though, it must fit with the course goal you've chosen

in your reflective introduction and should demonstrate your use of that skill. For this, particularly if the work

is from outside our class, this is graded almost entirely on your explanation of how it fits with your

accomplishment of the course goal you've chosen and how well it demonstrates that accomplishment.

How to Turn In Your Portfolio

You may either turn in a hard copy to me or submit your portfolio electronically through Blackboard.

To submit a hard copy, print all of the components of your portfolio and put them in a folder. You should

turn in the folder to me in person by 4:30pm on Monday, December 11th. I will be in my office (70-317) that

day from 8am-4:30pm. You may also turn it in to me on the last day of class during class time or office

hours.

To submit electronically, you may either copy and paste all parts of your portfolio into one file and upload

that to the portfolio dropbox in Blackboard, or you may save each part as a separate file and upload each

file separately to the dropbox (it will accept multiple files). The due date is still the same if you submit

electronically (4:30pm on Monday, December 11th), but you may turn it in any time you like before that

deadline. There will be a shortcut to this dropbox under the essay dropboxes on the lefthand Blackboard

menu for easy access. 

Portfolio Checklist

Biography (10 points)

Reflective Introduction (50 points)

English 101 essay (10 points)

English 101 essay (10 points)

Blackboard assignment (5 points)

Blackboard assignment (5 points)

Wild Card (10 points)

End of Semester Schedule

Tuesday, November 28

Go over final portfolio

assignment and discuss

reflective introduction in detail

Thursday, November 30

(No class) Blackboard

assignment: submit draft of

biography for portfolio, due by

11:59pm Sunday

Tuesday, December 5

Optional day (portfolio Q&A)

Monday, December 11th

All work for class, essay revisions,

and final portfolio due by

4:30pm. 

Reminders

4:30pm on Monday, December 11th is

the deadline for ALL WORK for this

class. Anything submitted after that

time will not be graded and will not be

part of your final course grade.

When submitting work, double check

after you submit that your file has

uploaded. 

If your work was turned in late, it

probably won't be graded until final

exam day or after.

Class time on Tuesday, December 5th

is the deadline for submitting revised

essays to be regraded before final

exam day. Any essays resubmitted

after this time WILL be regraded, just

not until after the deadline for

coursework submission on Monday,

December 11th.

Essay fives and other work submitted on time will be graded on Monday and

Tuesday of this week, and after that, revised essays resubmitted through

Blackboard (if you originally turned in your essay on time) will be graded around

every other day through December 6th. After that, you may still revise and turn in

an updated version any time before 4:30pm on Monday, December 11th.