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Composition Project 3: Writing Portfolio

Your Writing Portfolio is an online space where you gather pieces of your writing and

make an argument about how those pieces demonstrate significant development of your writing, your thinking, and/or your research skills. It is also a place where you can address more specifically your relationship to the goals of the course. You will select one of the FWP Outcomes that resonates with you, and you will use reflective analysis as a tool to closely examine a variety of your own compositions over a period of time. Reflective analysis helps you to make an evidence-based argument about yourself, a skill that will benefit you not only here at Drexel, but also outside of Drexel. In your personal, academic, and professional life, it will be important to establish and reflect on goals, to periodically examine what you have accomplished, and to ask critical questions about your learning: What did I hope to accomplish in this class/project/ experience? How did I grow as a person, scholar, or professional? What evidence do I have for that growth? How does this growth prepare me for what is next? In many contexts, you will be asked to discuss, either in person or in writing, what kind of student or employee you will be. In these contexts, it is reflective analysis that will allow you to examine your experience for the evidence you need to construct clear and honest answers for yourself and others.

As you move through the FWP sequence, the Writing Portfolio will give you lots of

practice in doing reflective analysis, which will help you to work toward two of the FWP

Outcomes (and others, too):

1. Students will reflect on their own and others’ writing and communication

processes and practices. They will learn that the term “writer” applies to

themselves and their peers.

2. Students will use writing to embrace complexity and think about open-ended

questions.

The skills you gain by closely examining your compositions, and by making larger claims about your writing abilities based on the compositions you include, will help to prepare you for the reflective analysis you will be asked to do later in your academic and professional life.

English 102 Writing Portfolio and Reflective Analysis Assignment

Your Reflective Analysis should accomplish four tasks:

1. It should make an argument about your writing development. Read the

FWP Outcomes and choose ONE of the Outcomes as the focus for your

argument. You have lots of options here.

2. It should use pieces of your own writing as evidence for your argument.

Specifically, you should integrate the following compositions as sources in

your analysis:

a. 1 major project from 101

b. 1 major project from 102

c. 2 informal compositions from either 101 or 102

d. Any other supporting compositions you would like to use

3. It should do “meta-analysis” of those artifacts as it makes its argument.

Works Cited

Last name, First name. “Title of Project.” Course Title. Professor ______ _______.

Department, Institution. Date project was submitted. Form of Media (Print, Web,

etc.).

---. “Title of Project.” Course Title. Professor ______ _______. Department,

Institution. Date project was submitted. Form of Media (Print, Web, etc.).

outcome

2) Students will apply the writing process and revision to the creation of persuasive

projects.

Assessment/Deliverables:

•Students will complete at least two major assignments with a substantive

written component.

• Students will draft and revise at least one substantive written composition

guided by instructor and peer rough draft comments (instructors’ evaluations Drexel University Dept. of English and Philosophy

can be delivered via written comments, verbal comments, and/or

conferencing).

•Students will meet with their instructor at least once to discuss a writing assignment

5) Students will reinforce their understanding that grammatical and mechanical

errors detract from achieving their communication purposes.

Assessment/Deliverable:

•Students will demonstrate in several assignments their ability to write with

minimal grammatical and mechanical errors.