Let’s make the due date Wednesday, December 18. This will give me enough time to get all of them graded in two classes in time for grades to go in on the following Monday. You can email it to me as a pdf or Word document. PLEASE be sure it is in one or another of these formats and that it is attached to your email.
You should include a heading at the beginning of the
document that includes the following information:
- Your name
- The total word count
You should also be sure that each separate text in the
portfolio has an individual title—and something more interesting and useful
than just e.g., “Short Essay #5 revised.”
Here are the three substantive levels on which I will be
grading the portfolios:
- Elegance and clarity of writing (which is typically
an indirect indicator of effort, since almost no one writes with great elegance
and clarity without serious revision).
- Familiarity and engagement with course
materials/texts (these should not be quoted directly, at least not extensively—instead,
paraphrase and use parenthetical citations to let me know what you’re citing)
- Evidence that you have consulted responses from
other students or from me in your revisions (or, if you use texts that did not
get substantial attention from other readers, evidence of significant revision
when compared to the original text)