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English 1102

T5/14

Final Versions Due via email by July 25th.

I will accept (and return with comments asap) second drafts until July 22nd.

Portfolio Revision Guidelines:

There must be a total of seven files, preferably in Word (.doc or .docx), OpenOffice (.odt) or Rich-text Format (.rtf), in the portfolio—I can also accept WordPerfect (.wps). It would be easier for me if you send all the files together in one email, but I know that some email programs may not allow that—so multiple emails may be necessary. I will send a confirmation email to you when your portfolio is complete; watch for this email, if you don’t get it, your portfolio is not complete.

The seven files: the revisions of Samples 2-7 and a Reflective Essay, a short introduction to the portfolio, that, in an essay of a page or two, reflects on how you’ve grown as a writer in the process of writing and revising these six papers. It should be seen as an argumentative essay implicitly demonstrating the learning outcomes detailed on the syllabus. It should be specific and to the point about what you have learned, what you have applied, and what you have changed in the portfolio from first to final drafts.

Follow my marginal comments in the drafts, but you will need to go beyond just correcting mechanical errors—this portfolio must show significant revision of ideas, examples, and analysis as needed. Also, after a few of the same errors in each paper (e.g. comma splices) I stop marking them – it is your job to learn to identify and correct these errors.

How it will be graded:

* A failing portfolio, either a “D” or an “F,” will either be completely off-topic, so short as to be negligible, and/or be so marred by mechanical errors that meaning is lost. Further, the argument may not be grounded in a thesis or else lack examples or explain why the examples given mean for the interpretation. A portfolio lacking any of the seven required components cannot receive a grade above “F.”

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