Final ePortfolio Guidelines/Checklist
Your final ePortfolio will be due on Monday of finals week. Make sure your ePortfolio is set to public and post your URL to the assignment page.
*For the final, you will create a separate portfolio from the midterm.
**For technical questions on how to add content and organize your ePortfolio, consult the Canvas Student Help Guide on ePortfolios (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
***How to Format Your ePortfolio FAQs
Assignment: Your ePortfolio should be organized into the following sections:
Portfolio Introduction, 500-800 words
This introductory essay 1) makes arguments about your progress in WR39B, especially in the RA essay and RIP project; and 2) analyzes all of the writing you’ve selected for the portfolio as evidence for your arguments. The essay should include the following:
- Specific arguments about the advancement of particular writing skills through class participation, with evidence from your writing and the feedback you’ve received
- Your reasons for making the choices you made, and what you may have done differently
- Artifacts (at least 3), each of which should be analyzed and connected to your arguments about your writing process and progress in the portfolio introduction itself.Eligible artifacts include in-class writing, critical reading exercises and RIP exercises, essay drafts, and/or other writing or notes relevant to our class.
Your arguments should relate the development of your writing skills to the larger context of academic writing. Put another way, what do you understand about academic discourse (writing) and its conventions that you didn’t know before taking WR39B?
Final Drafts of RIP Project + Essay
- Your portfolio will include your final RIP project and essay. For the project and essay, make sure you meet all criteria on the “RIP Project prompt” in the Week 6 module.
- The project and essay should each be clearly formatted, organized and labelled.
Working Bibliography
- Copy/paste your midterm Working Bibliography (see “Working Bibliography” under week 10 module for instructions). Each annotation should contain the following information, written in your own words:
- Brief description and analysis of the author’s ethos, credentials and background (Google this info; 1-2 sentences);
- Summary of the author’s main argument and key supporting evidence OR description of the relevant rhetorical effects you imitated in the RIP; how you were inspired to use this particular source in your RA essay and/or RIP project.
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How Will I Be Graded? The Portfolio Rubric:
The RIP essay will set the “base” grade for your final ePortfolio. The quality of the portfolio, especially the introductory essay, will either raise or lower that RIP base grade.
Your work will be evaluated based on what you’ve written, not simply the time and effort you’ve put into this class. I’ll be looking for quality of execution throughout: complex, thoughtful ideas, detailed and careful analysis, clear organization, and overall polish.
An F is automatic if you fail to submit your RIP (including working drafts), or regularly fail to complete and/or submit process work on time (including peer review). Evidence of plagiarism is also grounds for failure.
For all UCI Composition courses, you need a final grade of C or above to pass and move on. If you receive a C- or below, you must retake WR39B.
Working Bibliography
Annotating a bibliography…
- encourages you to think critically about the content of the works you are using, their place within a field of study, and their relation to your own research and ideas.
- proves you have read and understand your sources.
- establishes your work as a valid source and you as a competent researcher.
- situates your study and topic in a continuing professional conversation.
- provides a way for others to decide whether a source will be helpful to their research.
For Our Purposes:
Sentence 1 (must be one sentence):
- Name of author
- His or her credentials
- “argues that ______” or “surveys the field of _____” etc. + thesis or main purpose
Sentence 2 (possibly 2 sentences for longer/complex works):
- Refined statement of the progression of the argument – this will somewhat restate the thesis at times, but it should explain how the texts argument proceeds, what ground it covers, maybe including a note about its method or approach
Sentence 3 (possibly 2 sentences):
- Example or citation of the type of sources it utilizes or references
- and/or its relation to a broader field of discourse
- and/or its relationship to your project (if on a larger list)
Sentence 4:
- What type of readers will find this useful – don’t bother stating the obvious, be specific: what interests will this work satisfy? what needs will it address within a larger project?
- and/or the context in which this text appeared (especially for chapters in a book or articles)
Sample entry:
Wright, Will. “Introduction: The Hero in Popular Stories.” Journal of Popular Film and
Television 32.4 (2005): 146-148.
Wright, a professor of sociology and author of several books on popular stories, argues that heroes should not be defined exclusively by any particular cultural moment or critical interest because we might then overlook what heroes across cultures share. To support his argument, Wright reminds us that the very structure of language down to basic grammar implies a narrative where human actions change situations – the first ingredient for heroism. Wright’s purpose in this brief introduction is to address the cultural specificity of heroes identified in subsequent essays, while reminding readers that each of these hero shares certain generic characteristics such as activism and decisiveness. The article is especially geared toward readers of the journal who might get lost in the “transient issues of cultural fashion” when reading about a nontraditional hero such as the Eurasian female kickboxing anthropologist, Sydney Fox.
