ON YOUR FINAL PORTFOLIO
A writing portfolio is a collection of REVISED writing assignments that are representative of a student's work throughout an entire semester.
Your Google Drive shared folder will count as your final portfolio for this course. As discussed at the beginning of the semester, your final portfolio is worth 25% of your final course grade. Bear in mind that I will grade your final portfolio as a whole--not as the average of different project grades. Also, incomplete portfolios may not receive a passing grade.
YOUR FINAL PORTFOLIO IS DUE ON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14TH BY MIDNIGHT.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14TH BY MIDNIGHT.
No late work will be accepted.
Below is an up-to-date list of all the files that you should have in your shared Google Drive folder by the final portfolio deadline. I have also included the correct file names. Finally, I STRONGLY encourage all of you to visit the UTRGV Writing Center (ESTAC 3.119) prior to the deadline for assistance with any grammar-related issues in any of your assignments.
ASSIGNMENT TITLE
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NAME IN GOOGLE DRIVE
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Creative Nonfiction
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Nonfiction-YourFullName
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Short Fiction
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Fiction-YourFullName
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Dramatic Scene
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Drama-YourFullName
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Free Verse Poetry
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Poetry-YourFullName
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Reflective Essay
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Reflection-YourFullName
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ON YOUR REFLECTIVE ESSAY
The reflective essay is a short essay that will help me gauge your overall development as a writer this semester. Your essay will offer me a way of reading the work in your final portfolio and should help me understand what you have learned from all all of the assignments, readings, activities, and discussions this semester.
To get your reflective essay started, you'll want to create a Google Doc in your Google Drive shared folder. Name the file like this: Reflection-YourFullName.
Your reflective essay should be: 1) 3-5 pages in length, 2) double-spaced, and 3) included in your portfolio by the final portfolio deadline. Also, since I will be the primary audience for your reflective essay, you should address me directly (Ex. Dr. Moreira, I just want to let you know that I enjoyed/hated the course because...).
To help you compose your reflective essay, here are ten questions to ask yourself about your overall ENGL 3351 experience and your development as a creative writer this semester:
YOUR REFLECTIVE ESSAY IS DUE WITH YOUR FINAL PORTFOLIO.
Click HERE for a sample reflective essay from a previous class.
Click HERE for a sample reflective essay from a previous class.
To get your reflective essay started, you'll want to create a Google Doc in your Google Drive shared folder. Name the file like this: Reflection-YourFullName.
Your reflective essay should be: 1) 3-5 pages in length, 2) double-spaced, and 3) included in your portfolio by the final portfolio deadline. Also, since I will be the primary audience for your reflective essay, you should address me directly (Ex. Dr. Moreira, I just want to let you know that I enjoyed/hated the course because...).
To help you compose your reflective essay, here are ten questions to ask yourself about your overall ENGL 3351 experience and your development as a creative writer this semester:
- What is your “ENGL 3351” story? Where did you begin? What happened along the way? Where have you ended up?
- Check out the course syllabus again. What are the goals for this class? Which goals do you feel you’ve accomplished this semester?
- What were the challenges you faced this semester? How did you deal with those challenges?
- What do you see in all the work you’ve completed for this class? Discuss each assignment individually, if you wish. What was easy/difficult? How has all the work in this class helped you develop as a writer?
- What do you know about yourself as a writer now that you didn’t know before the start of this class?
- What strategies have you learned to use to make your writing more effective? What were the specific things that helped you learn in this class?
- What were some of the important questions for you this semester, and how and why did you go about finding answers for these questions?
- In terms of your development as a writer, what do you still need to work out in order to reach your goals?
- What do you still want to know more about? After all of our readings, discussions, writing assignments, etc. in class, what do you plan on investigating further after this class is over?
- Overall, what have you learned in this class? What have you learned about creative writing, about feedback and revision, and about yourself? Do you consider yourself a more confident writer now? If so, how and why?
