Depending on how many students are simultaneously enrolled in the ePortfoio tutorial and other individual enrollment capstone options, meeting schedules will vary.
Week 1: June 10: Introducing the ePortfolio Tutorial: Share Syllabus, note preliminary assignments, prompt students to begin Artifact Review.
- Assignments Due:
- Academic Writing Reflection 1: How has your relationship with academic writing evolved over the course of the program? Have you developed research and writing processes that are effective for you? What remains the most difficult aspect of research and writing for you? Where do you feel you have improved most as a professional academic critic and writer?
- Email your program director a set of artifacts with a prefatory note explaining where each artifact came from (class context) and the logic of your selections / possible genre options you hope to employ (this will be a draft of the portfolio memo, due during week 4).
Week 2: June 17: Academic Writing and Editing: Applying Best Practices
- Readings Due: Hayot and Williams: These were originally assigned ENGL 511 and you can pick around in both of these for the most interesting or relevant aspect of academic writing that you want to explore.
- Assignment Due: Rhetorical Analysis Discussion Post Due–post to blog by Sunday 1/29 at midnight. Please explain / unpack one key idea or principle each from Hayot and Williams and use that idea to engage a piece either one of your own seminar papers or an example of peer-reviewed literature that you’re dealing with in one of your projects. The goal here is to reflect on the genre of academic writing (your own or otherwise)—from both a generic and stylistic perspective—noting where certain moves or practices are either exemplified or overlooked.
- Individual meeting with instructor to discuss ePortfolio artifacts and revision / genre ideas.
Week 3: June 25; ePortfolio Memo
- Assignment Due: ePortfolio Memo: The ePortfolio memo grounds your work over the rest of the term. In the memo, begin by describing more broadly why you have chosen the artifacts you have chosen for revision and/or adaptation. If there is not a strong sense of thematic unity, you might justify your selection by noting how each challenged you in a new way, introduced you to a new area, or inspired you to explore a certain set of ideas.
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After this broader introduction, please introduce each artifact under a separate header. First note the course and instructor, then the paper title, then the revision category (e.g. “traditional seminar paper” or “lesson plan” or “podcast” or “broader-audience literary essay.” Then go into more detail on your revision plans for that paper. If this is an academic artifact, you should discuss specific aspects of the project (in terms of both writerly style and genre-based best practices) that you plan to improve, noting, as well, any additional research that will be conducted (note, however, that this is not a major paper revision, so additional research isn’t required). If you will be exploring genres beyond the seminar paper, describe that genre and how you plan to adapt your project accordingly. Include any additional research you’ve done on this genre as well (e.g. if you are doing a podcast, this requires some research on what makes a great podcast).
Week 4: July 1: Individual meeting with program director to discuss ePortfolio Memo
Week 5: July 8: Independent writing, research, and consultation–Draft of artifact 1
Week 6: July 15: Independent writing, research, and consultation–Draft of artifact 2 Due.
Week 7: July 22: Independent writing, research, and consultation–Draft of artifact 2
Week 8: July 29: Independent writing, research, and consultation–Draft of eportfolio with required framing reflections.
Week 9: ePortfolio Due August 4