Final Portfolio: Due in class on Wednesday, May 3rd.
Congratulations on 15 weeks worth of reading, writing, thinking, drafting, and sharing. Your final portfolio is the collected body of your best work this semester. Here are the necessary components:
Final Portfolio· Self-reflection letter: Describe your process of arriving at the finished project. Where did you begin? What surprised you? What did you discover about yourself and your writing? What specific challenges or dilemmas did you face? How did you choose to resolve these? What models were particularly inspiring for you and why? What questions remain? If you had more time, what else would you like to do with this project? (2-3 pps)
· Final Autobiographical project(s): 10-15 pages of your finest polished prose. See below for a list of the qualities we expect to find in well-crafted autobiographical writing.
· Drafting: Include all the writing that went into this final project: drafts, freewrites, in-class exercises, blog posts, random notes.· Five best blog posts and your rationale for why.
Qualities we expect in the Final Autobiographical project:
- A strong sense of the writer’s voice and presence
- Description: vivid images and scenes that enable readers to “see”
- Awareness of tone and voice/ Honesty and humor
- Background information
- Conscious control over time—knowing when to slow down and when to speed up
- Reflection and insight: Moments where the writer ponders, muses, and makes meaning
- Developed characters—a sense of a self-in –relation to other people. (For example, providing a brief physical sketch of the people you’re writing about; including direct quotes, dialogue, and conversation)
- Attention to language and craft
- Attention to other points of view
- Use of comparisons—metaphors and similes
- Intertextuality—direct reference to other texts, writers, and/or stories that illuminate your own
- Creative use of investigation and research
Necessary Details:TitlePage numbersWorks Cited page or Works ConsultedProofread and spell-checked
Options:Images and/or graphicsAcknowledgments or prologue
Final Portfolio: Pick up on Monday, May 7th at 10:00.
