Due: During finals block (CCNY has not announced the final exam schedule yet)
Click here to view the assignment sheet and rubric in Google Docs.
Instructions
Your “final” is your chance to showcase your learning this semester. There are several components to the portfolio, listed below. All page guidelines are minimum requirements.
- Look at the Course Learning Objectives on the syllabus. Include in your portfolio any/all work from this semester that showcases your achievement of these learning objectives. This can be our major papers, but it can also be shorter assignments, Writing Into The Day responses, in-class activities, etc.
- Write a statement explaining why you chose these components (for Item 1) and how they illustrate the learning objectives. (This will likely need to be multiple pages)
- A 1 page reflection statement on Paper 1: This I No Longer Believe (your writing process, what you learned, what you think you could have done better, “How does this paper showcase your learning?” etc.)
- A 1 page reflection statement on Paper 2: Rhetorical Landscape (see above)
- A 1 page reflection statement on Paper 3: Research Essay (see above)
- A new draft/revision of one major essay of your choosing. There are no guidelines for this revision, except that it must be a substantial revision (e.g. not just commas and formatting changes). Make it the paper you want it to be.
- A 1-page reflection statement on this new revision, explaining your choices.
- A broader reflective essay analyzing your work this semester. Think of it as a fresh “Yourself as Reader and Writer” essay now that the semester is over. What did you learn from our class? What do you want to learn more about? What skills do you want to further develop in your future classes? (at least 2 pages)
- (Optional) Any additional commentary you wish to include about your work this semester.
- (Optional) Any additional “artifacts” from your work this semester that you feel like this portfolio would be incomplete without.
Portfolios should be created on the CUNY Academic Commons. You can and should look back at your unit reflections as you compose your different reflection statements. It’s okay to say some of the same things you said there.
If you have on-paper things you want to include in your portfolio, you can scan them using a library scanner or an app like CamScanner.
Rubric
1. Portfolio contains all required components and was turned in on time. (10 points)
2. All components meet the length requirement. (10 points)
3. All course objectives are addressed. (You include work that illustrates each course objective, and you explain in your statement how each objective is demonstrated in the work you chose to include.) (10 points)
4. Reflection statements on major essays display critical thinking and serious self-reflection, referring to specific aspects of the essays or parts of the writing process (10 points per paper for a total of 30 points)
5. The new revision of a previous paper is substantial, and the student justifies their choices persuasively in the reflection statement, which displays critical thinking and serious self-reflection as a writer. (10 points)
6. The final reflective essay offers compelling and persuasive insight into the student’s learning and growth (and/or lack thereof, and/or future goals for learning and growth) over the course of the semester. The final reflective essay uses specific examples from the student’s writing, actions, or life experiences to support the student’s claims. (10 points)
7. All components exhibit the appropriate structural and stylistic conventions for personal reflective writing in the student’s dialect of choice. (10 points)
8. The portfolio utilizes the CUNY Academic Commons in a rhetorically effective way; the portfolio is accessible, functions to exhibit the materials instead of simply collecting them, and any un-used pages or posts have been removed from the site. (10 points)
Total: ____ (out of 100)
