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Final E-Portfolio Directions for
1201-0160
Creating a portfolio of your work, and a self-assessment that examines that
portfolio, is a way to take charge of your educational experience. Not only will
the instructor assess your work; you will also assess your work and your
experience with writing and reading.
This portfolio will be scored by your instructor and by another Seton Hall
writing instructor in order to give you a more consensual assessment of your
performance in ENGL1201-0160. The possible scores are 1, 2, 3, and 4, with 1
lowest and 4 highest. The portfolio due date will be no later than Friday,
Dec.14, at 9:00 a.m., though your instructor may request that you turn it in
earlier.
The final term e-portfolio is comprised of three separate parts:
1. Two final draft essays, including a previous draft. Each essay must
provide an argument for a position and one essay must draw upon at least two
sources in a substantive way. The final draft should be without instructor
comments, so as to eliminate the bias that would come
from the outside scorers seeing your instructor's comments and/or grade.
You may further revise this essay for the portfolio.
2. A formal in-class piece of writing.
3. A self-assessment (3-5 pages). The ability to write about your writing and
reading skills is one factor in promoting your future growth and will affect
your overall portfolio score. See
student example.
Follow directions in the linked
PowerPoint presentation to
put items #1-3 above into the Content System in Blackboard and to create an
e-portfolio.
Directions for Self-Assessment
The self-assessment should be an essay every bit as much as any you've
written so far this term in College English. That is, it should have a thesis,
an introduction that engages the reader, an argument that leads to a conclusion,
and documentation from the writing you've done this term. It should not just
be a list. However, along with issues you wish to deal with, you will want
to respond to the following aspects of your writing and reading. You may
wish to refer to the
First-Year Writing Outcomes Statements to provide some language useful to
writing your self-assessment.
1. What specific writing skills have you learned in this class? Briefly
explain how these skills have helped you as a writer by citing parts of the
revised essays, especially the last one.
2. Assess the writing difficulties you faced, primarily since the mid-term,
and discuss what you have done to remedy those problems. You could discuss one
or two problems you have dealt with successfully and one or two problems (that
you identify, perhaps after an honest analysis of the problems you still see in
the revised paper in the portfolio) you’re still struggling with.
3. Evaluate your experience with the revision process. You could write about
how you’ve learned to use feedback from your instructor, your classmates in peer
review, and your tutor; what you’ve learned about writing through the process of
revising; and how your idea of revision has changed (if at all), especially
since the mid-term.
4. Reflect upon how your reading experience has changed in this class. What
new reading strategies have you learned? How have your experiences and
strategies affected the way you read now--both in your English class and outside
this class?
5. Make an evaluation of yourself as a writer outside of this writing class.
How have the skills that you've learned in this class been useful in other
courses?
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