In class on Wednesday, each of you will submit your writing portfolio. For a professional impression, it is best to use a solid color, two-pocket folder. Don’t forget to fill out the information on the label I gave you in class on Friday, and affix the label to the front of your portfolio.
For your portfolio, please choose your best in-class essay and your two best essays written outside of class (one of which should show your ability to use sources), and place them on the right side of the portfolio. You would also do well to affix a Post-It note marked “for evaluation” to the top copy of each of your chosen essays. All other work goes on the left.
For essays written outside of class that you wish to have evaluated, you should have a clean copy of the essay on top. For all essays, all drafts should be assembled in reverse chronological order and paper-clipped together. The pages of each individual draft of the essay should be stapled together.
Your completed portfolio will contain:
- two or three in-class essays
- the assigned op-ed piece
- an essay evaluating the arguments in the issue you chose from McKenna and Feingold
- an article evaluation essay
- a research essay
