Portfolio

Your final assignment in this class will be a writing portfolio that represents your understanding of technical communication. It is intended to be a vehicle for you to show your best work.

Contents

Your portfolio will contain the following materials:

• revised, corrected copies of the following major assignments:
  • Multicultural Memo
  • Job Letter and Résumé
  • Claim Letter and Solicitation Email
  • Instructions
     

• revised, corrected copies of the reflexive memos for each major assignment listed above;

• a summative memo (1000-1500 words) in which you reflect on your work throughout the semester.

Summative Memo Contents

Here are some general suggestions for topics to address in the summative reflective memo:

• Choices you made while revising each document:
  • What are the strengths and weaknesses of each document?
  • What difficulties did you encounter when creating each document?
     
• Your overall opinion of each document:
  • Which document are you most proud of?
  • Which document are you least proud of?
  • Which document was the most challenging to create?
     
• Your overall opinion of the assignments:
  • Which assignment did you learn the most from?
  • Which assignment was the easiest for you?
  • Which assignment was the most difficult for you?
  • How did the reflective memos impact your thinking about the assignments?
     
• Your personal progress as a technical communicator:
  • Did you accomplish something in this portfolio that surprised you?
  • What can you do as a writer that you could not do before?
  • What will you take away from this class?
  • What have you learned that will be useful in your life outside college?

You do not need to address all of these topics. They are starting points for your thoughts.

Deliverables

1. Hard Copy Packet

You will submit a packet containing hard copies of all the relevant documents. Arrange the documents in the following order:

1. Summative Reflective Memo
2. Multicultural Memo
3. Multicultural Reflective Memo
4. Job Letter
5. Résumé
6. Job Letter & Résumé Reflective Memo
7. Claim Letter
8. Solicitation Email
9. Claim Letter & Solicitation Email Reflective Memo
10. Instructions
11. Instructions Reflective Memo

Due Date

Portfolios are due by 5 p.m., August 5 th. 2009.

Grading

Your portfolios will be assessed against the following rubric:

• Contents
  Has the student included all required evidence for fulfilling objectives, including a summative reflective memo and all revised copies of coursework?
   
• Objectives
  Does the portfolio show that the student has met the course objectives successfully?
   
• Revision
  Has the student revised adequately in keeping with the instructor's comments on initial versions of documents?
   
• Reflection
  Has the student reflectively integrated the course objectives into a growing sense of him- or herself as a technical communicator?
   
• Presentation
  Has the student presented the material in a well-designed, usable package?