Portfolio Info

Here are your second semester criteria:

Your portfolio will include at least 3 additional final drafts (including your rhetorical analysis essay) to show evidence of your learning for the following criteria:

1. Successful understanding and use of claims, reasons, and qualifiers
2. Various modes to include research, persuasion, cause/effect, and rhetorical analysis
3. Use of evidence to convince, including well-used and documented secondary AND primary research
4. Variety of purpose and audience throughout the year
5. Correct MLA works cited page—at 100%
6. Multiple drafts with revision based on feedback
7. Stylistic maturity
8. Growth as a writer over the course of the year
9. Growth as a reader over the course of the year

To receive an A, you must also show evidence of your own helpful feedback as a peer responder and publish one piece of writing for the appropriate audience.

So here are some more details to help you achieve that:

1. Your research paper likely covers many of these.  If your "final draft" didn't successfully achieve all of these research components (i.e. perfect works cited page), revise it so it does.  There are comments on your final draft in Turnitin that tell you where you have problems.  Revise it and include a better copy of it in your final portfolio.
2. Your rhetorical analysis will also help meet several of the criteria above.  For instance, comparing it with your Nabokov paper from first semester or even your Fast Food paper from first quarter may be a good way to show your growth as a reader (and potentially as a writer).
3. To get credit for publishing a piece, you need to get something you wrote this year to its intended audience.  Your research paper works well for this because you spent a lot of time on it and have a clear audience--and probably an argument you actually want people to hear.  To get credit for it, I need to "see" your submission.  If you're going to email it to your audience (i.e. Mrs. Stone for The Indian, the Record Herald, a legislator, etc.), just copy me on the email.  If you're going to mail it in paper form, bring it in with an addressed envelope (open, please) and I'll even mail it for you.  If there is some other way you need to submit or publish your argument that doesn't fit one of these options, see me for how to do it in a way I can be sure to give you credit for.
4. You currently have TWO more pieces to write.  I have updated the Google Calendar to show what we are doing for the rest of year, including lab days.  There are a few of them BUT you will likely need to do some writing OUTSIDE of class.  You have basically ONE MONTH to complete your portfolio.  Here are your deadlines:

• Start your rhetorical analysis NOW
• Journaling prompts in class to help with your last piece: April 2-11
• Lab time during class:  April 12, 16, 19, 24, and 29
• Optional draft due April 12 by midnight.  If you want INDIVIDUAL feedback from me, you need to submit a draft to Turnitin on this day.  It can be whatever piece you like and you don't HAVE to turn one in.  But I will read and give feedback on anyone's paper that is turned in BY April 12.  NO LATE SUBMISSIONS!
• Silent reading table on April 22--bring a PRINT COPY of one or both pieces to class with you.
• Completed portfolio due April 29 by midnight.