Ms. Gokturk

Advanced Composition

The Portfolio: Egads! It's the End of the Term!

You've spent time and shed many tears to get through this course. You have a body of writing to show for it, and it’s time to “publish.” Your goal is to revise and polish, publish, and be proud! By the end of the term, it is expected that you have ALL of your essays polished/revised and placed lovingly into your portfolio.

Option 1 The Website Portfolio

This option is for the student who knows how to publish on the web. While I can teach you basic HTML, it is preferable that you already have a comfort level with the medium. You must willing to publish all the work or this is not the option for you! All works should be posted in separate pages with illustrations for each item and be linked back to your index; all pages should link to each other.

OPTION 2 The Magazine Portfolio

You will use a desktop publisher (Microsoft Publisher) to format your journal into a professional looking publication. It is not acceptable to punch some wholes in your graded work or rip out pages from your journal. I do not want to see my comments! Also note that you must find a way to make your portfolio inviting to read with illustrations for each work. Be decorative and inventive. Suggestions include fashioning a magazine replica (Time, People, The New Yorker, Sport Illustrated, etc.), creating a personal newspaper format (both methods use desk top publishing), using MS Word booklet printing, using art or photography techniques, creating a “story- book” or “biography.” Make it purty.

General Requirements for the Portfolio (Double project grade)

This will be your last project grade. In order to receive full credit per piece, each piece must reflect revision and effort in presentation (graphics, illustrations, creativity, etc.). Revise all work (except the Pre-Course Reflection Statement). At minimum, this means reading through the comments and fixing the glitches; however, in order to receive the best portfolio grade, your work should be revised – not only typos but also tense, inconsistencies, questions I posed should be addressed as should suggestions be considered, formatting (omit those extra spaces) should be fixed, etc.

Real revision means reworking your pieces to make the writing clearer and more developed. Review the comments from your peers (I circle the ones that demonstrate areas where you could further improve your pieces) and my scribble in the margins.

¾ Cover Page with Title and Your Name (index page for webpage is both the Cover Page and Table of Contents)

¾ Table of Contents (with page numbers for hard copy)

¾ Pre-course Reflection on Self as Writer + illustration

¾ Personal Narrative / Significant Moment Essay + typed up writer response intro/after word + illustration

¾ Biography Essay + typed up writer response intro/after word + illustration

¾ Three of your better journal entries (you may certainly expound) + illustration for each

¾ Book Review / Outside Reading + illustration

¾ Outside Reading Characterization, Theme, Conflict Analysis + illustration

¾ Extra Credit Letter to author (+ scanned response if you received one) + illustration

¾ Multi-Genre Essay + typed up writer response intro/after word + illustration

¾ Process Analysis Essay + typed up writer response intro/after word + illustration

¾ [TBA: We will probably write an in-class: Argument Essay + typed up writer response intro/after word + illustration]

¾ OTHER: Post at least ONE other work from this year from any class. This should be work of which you are particularly proud (journal entries, class exercises, something you wrote for another class, something you wrote on your own, etc.) Try to pick something interesting, creative, insightful. This work/s also need + illustrations OR ask me for a list of journal prompts to create a memory book.

¾ Post-Course Reflection + illustration

PLEASE PICK UP PORTFOLIOS DURING TESTING WEEK or they will end up in the trash :-(