E-Portfolio Checklist

WRITING100 / Fall 2014 / Darling

E-portfolio Expectations

Your e-portfolio is the final assignment for this course; it is really a culmination of all the work you have done for this course, and a showcase of it.   You must complete your e-portfolio according to the specifications below to receive credit for this course.

Your e-portfolio must have all the following components, which you should enhance with photos or other media:

	Check off the items you have finished adding to your e-portfolio.
	A welcome statement on the “home page.”  Your welcome statement should, in addition to introducing yourself to people visiting your e-portfolio, give some context for the writing featured there, to give your audience a sense of what they will see.  It won’t just be folks from our class who see your e-portfolio; imagine an audience that also includes your favorite relative, an instructor you will have for a class next semester, and one of your friends from high school.  Write the welcome statement to help each of these very different audiences make sense of your e-portfolio.  Your welcome statement can and should evolve and become more specific as you progress through this course and complete more assignments.
	A page for your DSP essay that includes your reflection on writing it. You can choose whether or not to include the original DSP essay.
	A page for your Relationship to Writing Essay.
	A page for your Summary Response Paper.
	A page for your Argument Paper that includes a reflection on writing it.
	A page for your Final Paper Project that includes a reflection on writing it .
	*These are the basic components. You can add pages and writing to enhance or connect these across the portfolio. You can break these into more pages, or link from a main page to another page (eg. if you have a page with the reflection on the DSP and then link to another page that includes the DSP essay in order to break up the text on each page, etc.). *Think about the portfolio as a single work, not simply a collection of individual papers. How can you connect the parts into a whole using commentary, reflection, and transition from one part to another?

Additional e-portfolio requirements:

-Your e-portfolio is one way that you represent yourself as a member of an academic community, and as a college writer.  Your e-portfolio should be appropriate to an academic audience.  Also remember that your e-portfolio will be available to the general public, so anything and everything on it will be visible to the world—your girlfriend’s parents, your great-aunt Sally, prospective employers, etc.

-Any images or media you use in your e-portfolio should either be of your own making (your own photo or artwork) or should be free, unrestricted images or media from the public domain. 

-All writing needs to show clear signs of careful revision.  If your writing is not adequately revised, you will not receive credit for the course.

-Your e-portfolio needs to be put together with attention to consistency, or uniformity.  This applies to font, color, use of capitalization, and all other aspects of the design of your e-portfolio.

-Your e-portfolio should be carefully proofread, too, for typographical, spelling, grammatical, and mechanical errors.   Needless to say, it should be error-free.

-Beginning Nov. 24 we will be doing peer review workshops of the portfolios in class. You should have as much content on the page, in as complete a version as possible to receive the most effective feedback on your work.

-The complete and polished e-portfolio is due by class time on Wed. 10 Dec.