Preparing a course portfolio

• 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.