Preparing a course portfolio
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As part of a writing course, your instructor may ask you to prepare a portfolio, or collection, of your writing. Portfolios are used for different purposes.
- A process portfolio for a composition class consists of drafts, revisions, and reflections that demonstrate a writer’s thinking and learning processes or showcase the writer’s best work. A process portfolio allows you to demonstrate your development as a writer; in it you will collect notes, outlines, reflective journal or blog entries, multiple drafts—in short, the messy stuff.
- An evaluation portfolio (sometimes called an assessment portfolio) provides evidence of learning. Its purpose is to document your own improvement as a writer or to show that you have the skills to move on to advanced courses. In an evaluation portfolio, you will include a few select final pieces that have perhaps been revised multiple times, along with early drafts of those pieces.
Your instructor may assign a combination, asking at the end of the semester that you reshape your process portfolio into an evaluation portfolio.
Reflection and portfolios
Reflective cover letter for a course portfolio